{"id":401360,"date":"2026-08-08T20:02:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401360\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:02:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:02:19","slug":"gmsa-backpack-giveaway-students-parents-excited-ahead-of-new-school-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/401360\/","title":{"rendered":"GMSA backpack giveaway: Students, parents excited ahead of new school year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Hundreds of students and parents lined up Friday to grab a free backpack just in time before they head back to school.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">The giveaway was hosted by GMSA at J. Perez Law on 1712 Buena Vista St. Families lined up around 11 a.m. to get their free backpack ahead of the new school year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 jJNfBD fSvavs article-text\">Read also:<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 kfUEDb copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KSAT &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorsJaphanie Gray headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/44ULARSVLBEVVNOSC6YKTEKGRA\/\" title=\"View Japhanie Gray&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Japhanie Gray<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Japhanie Gray is an anchor on Good Morning San Antonio and Good Morning San Antonio at 9 a.m. The award-winning journalist rejoined KSAT in August 2024 after previously working as a reporter on KSAT&#8217;s Nightbeat from 2018 to 2021. She also highlights extraordinary stories in her series, What&#8217;s Up South Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Misael Gomez headshot<a class=\"Link-PukYsz7Y__LinkBase-sc-scvrjz-0 gQZqgJ\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/team\/K2MLEXJ43JFXZAVZSXFKVV7WKQ\/\" title=\"View Misael Gomez&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Misael Gomez<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-_wrDxHtU__Box-sc-10sa3ie-0 Text-nO2aZ44r__TextBase-sc-s2hv5x-0 duhyRF bxSMlJ\">Misael started at KSAT-TV as a photojournalist in 1987.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN ANTONIO \u2013 Hundreds of students and parents lined up Friday to grab a free backpack just in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[43474,6527,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-401360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-back-to-school","tag-ksatkids","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401360","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=401360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401360\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}