{"id":299230,"date":"2026-05-04T15:06:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299230\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T15:06:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T15:06:34","slug":"book-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/299230\/","title":{"rendered":"Book of the Week:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Library Book of the Week is &#8220;Eli and the Uncles&#8221; by Jehan Medhani.<\/p>\n<p>Fahra Daredia with the Kern County Library joined ARC Bakersfield to share details about the book.<\/p>\n<p>Daredia says the story follows a young boy who goes to visit his uncles who live together and each have a distinct personality.<\/p>\n<p>She says the book is perfect for young readers.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to check out &#8220;Eli and the Uncles&#8221; or any of the books available at the Kern County Library visit your local branch or visit <a href=\"https:\/\/kerncountylibrary.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">kerncountylibrary.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Library Book of the Week is &#8220;Eli and the Uncles&#8221; by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-299230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}