{"id":90093,"date":"2026-01-18T12:37:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90093\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T12:37:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T12:37:06","slug":"americas-250th-birthday-has-the-rapid-city-public-library-hosting-a-year-long-reading-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/90093\/","title":{"rendered":"America\u2019s 250th birthday has the Rapid City Public Library hosting a year-long reading challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) &#8211; The Rapid City Public Library has launched a Year-long, monthly reading challenge where participants can win prizes by logging the number of books they read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For January, children, teens and adults will have a chance to win four center-ice tickets to a Rapid City Rush game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For anyone not interested in hockey, don\u2019t worry, because the prizes change every month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Library Public Relations Coordinator Laurinda Tapper said, \u201cI feel like this challenge is really going to encourage literacy, and education, which is actually very important for all ages, and if you think about our nation\u2019s history, we\u2019ve grown so much, and part of that is how we\u2019re always expanding our knowledge, and this is just a way to encourage that, and celebrate where we\u2019ve been, and where we can go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Participants can track their reading by submitting a form at the library or online through the Rapid City Public Library website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? Please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kotatv.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">click here<\/a> to report it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kotatv.com\/community\/user-content\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\">Send it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 KOTA. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) &#8211; The Rapid City Public Library has launched a Year-long, monthly reading challenge where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[44564,38286,44562,37212,37214,37213,44566,37223,37222,44563,44565,37215,37221,128,130,129],"class_list":{"0":"post-90093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-000-year-long-book-reading-challenge","9":"tag-38286","10":"tag-americas-250th-birthday-sparks-a-reading-challenge-at-the-rapid-city-public-library","11":"tag-kota","12":"tag-kota-news","13":"tag-kota-territory-news","14":"tag-laurinda-tapper","15":"tag-pennington-county","16":"tag-rapid-city","17":"tag-rapid-city-library","18":"tag-rapid-city-library-public-relations-coordinator-laurinda-tapper","19":"tag-rapid-city-public-library","20":"tag-rapid-city-south-dakota","21":"tag-reading-city","22":"tag-reading-city-headlines","23":"tag-reading-city-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}