{"id":54068,"date":"2021-02-08T11:40:34","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T19:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=54068"},"modified":"2021-02-08T11:40:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T19:40:34","slug":"burton-named-penfaulkner-literary-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2021\/02\/burton-named-penfaulkner-literary-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton Named PEN\/Faulkner Literary Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>&#8216;s <strong>LeVar Burton<\/strong> (<em>Reading Rainbow<\/em>) has been named the &#8220;inaugural <em>PEN\/Faulkner Literary Champion<\/em>, a new annual commendation that will &#8216;recognize devoted literary advocacy and a commitment to inspiring new generations of readers and writers.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I come from a family for whom service to others is the highest possible calling,\u201d said Burton. &#8220;Whatever efforts I have made toward advancing the cause of literacy, give honor to my mother, <strong>Erma Gene Christian<\/strong>, my first teacher and from whom I have inherited my love for books and reading. As we move forward out of a time when alternative facts and mendacious propaganda shaped public opinion, the work you do through the <em>PEN\/Faulkner Award<\/em>, and your committed investment in DC schools, has never been more important. I couldn&#8217;t be more honored to be the inaugural <em>PEN\/Faulkner Literary Champion<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Burton will be honored during virtual celebration which will take place on May 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Star Trek: The Next Generation&#8216;s LeVar Burton (Reading Rainbow) has been named the &#8220;inaugural PEN\/Faulkner&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":54069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9631],"tags":[2451,10183],"class_list":["post-54068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awards","tag-burton","tag-penfaulkner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BurtonPenFaulkner020821.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BurtonPenFaulkner020821-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BurtonPenFaulkner020821.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BurtonPenFaulkner020821.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BurtonPenFaulkner020821.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BurtonPenFaulkner020821.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BurtonPenFaulkner020821.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BurtonPenFaulkner020821.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BurtonPenFaulkner020821.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/BurtonPenFaulkner020821.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/awards\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Awards<\/a>","tag_info":"Awards","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54068","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=54068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54070,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54068\/revisions\/54070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}