{"id":117640,"date":"2025-08-29T04:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117640\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T04:21:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T04:21:11","slug":"free-books-program-ending-in-genesee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/117640\/","title":{"rendered":"Free books program ending in Genesee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. (WNEM) &#8211; A beloved program providing free books to children is coming to an end in Genesee County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Dolly Parton Imagination Library will be paused indefinitely starting September 1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/flintandgeneseeliteracy\/posts\/pfbid0QLBw7G3uHUVDYfjA4TZ4shXuzpbZVqfdMxTBVykbvzPEKsm9QrGzJiTiFuVenxRdl\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/flintandgeneseeliteracy\/posts\/pfbid0QLBw7G3uHUVDYfjA4TZ4shXuzpbZVqfdMxTBVykbvzPEKsm9QrGzJiTiFuVenxRdl\">Flint and Genesee Literacy Network said<\/a> it\u2019s due to federal funding ending.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The literacy network said the program placed more than 300,000 books into the hands of almost 2,000 children across the county since its launch in 2016.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Families will continue receiving books through the end of September.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The literacy network said those who want to help should reach out to their local, state and federal lawmakers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WNEM. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GENESEE COUNTY, Mich. (WNEM) &#8211; A beloved program providing free books to children is coming to an end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[223,7399,88,76008,7056,76007,7402,3465,3720,8242],"class_list":["post-117640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-dolly-parton","tag-entertainment","tag-flint","tag-free","tag-genesee-county","tag-imagination-library","tag-library","tag-literacy","tag-reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}