{"id":13157,"date":"2023-01-26T16:10:40","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T20:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/?p=13157"},"modified":"2023-02-04T15:33:57","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T19:33:57","slug":"rons-big-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/rons-big-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"Ron\u2019s Big Mission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Rose Blue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine-year-old Ron loves going to the Lake City Public Library to look through all the books on airplanes and flight. Today, Ron is ready to take out books by himself. But in the segregated world of South Carolina in the 1950s, Ron&#8217;s obtaining his own library card is not just a small rite of passage\u2014it is a young man&#8217;s first courageous mission. Here is an inspiring story, based on Ron McNair&#8217;s life, of how a little boy, future scientist, and Challenger astronaut desegregated his library through peaceful resistance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Order online:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/298004\/rons-big-mission-by-rose-blue-and-corinne-naden-illustrated-by-don-tate\/\">https:\/\/www.penguinrandomhouse.com\/books\/298004\/rons-big-mission-by-rose-blue-and-corinne-naden-illustrated-by-don-tate\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Ron\u2019s Big Mission\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1F_vrd5iS4g?start=14&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From environmentalist and bestselling author Bill McKibben comes a hopeful, inspiring picture book celebrating the power of human cooperation and the beauty of life on Earth, beautifully illustrated by artist Stevie Lewis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-fullwidth.php","format":"image","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[83],"class_list":{"0":"post-13157","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-image","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-children","8":"tag-black-history","9":"post_format-post-format-image"},"aioseo_notices":[],"menu_order":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13586,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13157\/revisions\/13586"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcaf.nb.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}