{"id":64097,"date":"2025-10-07T22:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T22:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/64097\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T22:05:09","slug":"thousands-of-children-complete-cornwall-reading-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/64097\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of children complete Cornwall reading challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A record number of children have completed a summer reading event in Cornwall, according to the county council.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cornwall Council said libraries in the county loaned out 35,500 children&#8217;s books during the holidays as more than 8,000 young people aged from four to 11 signed up to do its Summer Reading Challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The event encouraged children to read books over the summer with those who took part earning prizes and certificates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The council said it recorded its highest completion rate for the challenge with 5,063 children &#8211; 68% of those who signed up &#8211; finishing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A record number of children have completed a summer reading event in Cornwall, according to the county council.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[489,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-64097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}