{"id":333808,"date":"2026-07-09T00:39:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333808\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T00:39:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T00:39:13","slug":"reading-with-the-rays-st-pete-catalyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333808\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading with the Rays &#8211; St Pete Catalyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading with the Rays, presented by\u00a0Suncoast Credit Union, is an incentive-based reading program that encourages students to avoid summer learning loss by reading for at least 24 hours during the summer months. A legendary Rays player will read a story to the youth in attendance and encourage lifelong reading habits. DJ Kitty will also be making a special appearance.<\/p>\n<p>This program is limited to 120 participants on a first-come, first-served basis. Tickets are limited to 2 adults per child. Adults must have a child or teen present with them to attend. Tickets will be given out at 10 a.m. when the library opens on the day of the event.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, please call 727-892-5296 or email <a href=\"https:\/\/stpetecatalyst.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"acdfdccddec7ecdfd8dcc9d8c982c3decb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">[email\u00a0protected]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1f4c5.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udcc5\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\"\/>\u00a0Friday, July 10<br class=\"html-br\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/23f0.png\" alt=\"\u23f0\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\"\/>\u00a011 a.m.<br class=\"html-br\"\/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"xz74otr x15mokao x1ga7v0g x16uus16 xbiv7yw\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1f4cd.png\" alt=\"\ud83d\udccd\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\"\/>\u00a0President Barack Obama Main Library &#8211; 3745 9th Ave. N<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reading with the Rays, presented by\u00a0Suncoast Credit Union, is an incentive-based reading program that encourages students to avoid&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-333808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}