{"id":215625,"date":"2026-03-22T17:19:38","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215625\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T17:19:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T17:19:38","slug":"smarts-collects-books-for-local-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/215625\/","title":{"rendered":"SMARTS collects books for local kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Marcos Association of Retired Teachers and Staff worked hard to secure new and lightly used children\u2019s books for the local community. This was part of a broader effort, the \u201cChildren\u2019s Book Project,\u201d by the Texas Retired Teachers Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSMARTS is very proud to be a big part of it,\u201d said Terri Connor, the Children\u2019s Book Project Administrator.<\/p>\n<p>Local donations come from the public, members and private organizations in San Marcos and across Hays County. Before donations are distributed, members label each book with the TRTA label.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis year, we proudly donated more than 550 books,\u201d Connor said.<\/p>\n<p>SMARTS will donate to Hays County Women\u2019s Center, Christus Santa Rosa Maternity Ward, TruChoice Maternity Resource Center, Hays County Kids Against Drugs and Hays County Remme Rainbow Room.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ar00301014.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/>Photos courtesy of SMARTS<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ar00301015.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ar00301016.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/Ar00301017.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Marcos Association of Retired Teachers and Staff worked hard to secure new and lightly used children\u2019s books&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-215625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-austin","9":"tag-austin-headlines","10":"tag-austin-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}