{"id":158814,"date":"2012-01-23T17:06:51","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T23:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=158814"},"modified":"2012-01-24T12:28:09","modified_gmt":"2012-01-24T18:28:09","slug":"barbara-bush-to-speak-in-tyler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=158814","title":{"rendered":"Barbara Bush Speaks in Tyler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=158967\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-158967\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2012\/01\/Barbara-Bush2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Barbara Bush2\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-158967\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2014 The Literacy Council of Tyler stages a happy reunion and looks for a big financial return when it hosts former First Lady Barbara Bush for a Celebration of Literacy today. The noon luncheon at Harvey Convention Center features Mrs. Bush as the keynote speaker, with proceeds benefiting the Literacy Council. This month marks the 15-year anniversary of Mrs. Bush\u2019s last visit. She spoke at a celebration for literacy in January 1997. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen Mrs. Bush spoke to our community 15 years ago, we were a small organization and there was limited awareness of illiteracy in Tyler,\u201d said Nancy Crawford, executive director of Literacy Council of Tyler. \u201cWe\u2019ve gone from serving 600 students per year to about 2,500 students per year, and really feel like much of our success is thanks to Mrs. Bush. We are so honored to have her back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Bush started The Barbara Bush Foundation for Family Literacy more than 20 years ago. It has awarded over $42 million to support the development and expansion of 960 family literacy programs in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2014 The Literacy Council of Tyler stages a happy reunion and looks for a big financial return when it hosts former First Lady Barbara Bush for a Celebration of Literacy today. The noon luncheon at Harvey Convention Center features Mrs. Bush as the keynote speaker, with proceeds benefiting the Literacy Council. This month marks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=158814\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Barbara Bush Speaks in Tyler<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 16:27:53","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158814"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159111,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158814\/revisions\/159111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}