{"id":14668,"date":"2012-01-27T10:14:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T18:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=14668"},"modified":"2012-01-27T10:14:42","modified_gmt":"2012-01-27T18:14:42","slug":"burton-to-receive-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/01\/burton-to-receive-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton To Receive Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14671\" title=\"Burton012712\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/Burton012712.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>LeVar Burto<\/strong>n is to be honored by Tufts University with an award on February 3.<\/p>\n<p>The award to be bestowed upon Burton is the Eliot-Pearson Award for Excellence in Children&#8217;s Media.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;LeVar Burton is a natural choice as he is a true children&#8217;s literary expert,&#8221; said <strong>Julie Dobrow<\/strong>, director of the communications and media studies at Tufts University. &#8220;Through his exceptional career he has helped to promote reading comprehension in elementary- school-age children through the medium of television.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Burton was the host of <em>Reading Rainbow<\/em> for twenty-six years.<\/p>\n<p>Burton will receive his award on February 3 at 10 A.M. in the Distler Performance Hall. The public may attend the free ceremony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8216;s LeVar Burton is to be honored by Tufts University with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442],"tags":[2484,2451],"class_list":["post-14668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","tag-award","tag-burton"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tng\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TNG<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TNG","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14668"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14674,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14668\/revisions\/14674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}