{"id":136,"date":"2019-03-15T08:30:08","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T12:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/?p=136"},"modified":"2019-03-06T08:43:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T13:43:16","slug":"march-15-simone-biles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/2019\/03\/15\/march-15-simone-biles\/","title":{"rendered":"March 15- Simone Biles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Simone Biles is an American gymnast from Houston, Texas. As a child, Simone and her siblings were placed in foster homes until she was adopted by her grandfather. Simone started practicing gymnastics at the age of six. In 2012, she switched from public school to homeschooling, so she could spend more time on gymnastics. All of the extra practice payed off. At the 2016 Olympics in Rio De Janeiro, Simone won the gold medal for individual all-around, floor, and vault gymnastics. She was part of the US National Team called the \u201cFinal Five\u201d. Simone also set the record for winning the most gold medals at a single Olympic games in women\u2019s gymnastics. With her numerous medals and awards, some consider Simone to be the greatest gymnast of all-time.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-137 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/gettyimages-456842584-8903cea59763382c07b511114eb9bcfbdd36aaeb-s800-c85-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"image of Biles leaping through the air wearing a red leotard\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/gettyimages-456842584-8903cea59763382c07b511114eb9bcfbdd36aaeb-s800-c85-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/gettyimages-456842584-8903cea59763382c07b511114eb9bcfbdd36aaeb-s800-c85-768x575.jpg 768w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2981\/2019\/03\/gettyimages-456842584-8903cea59763382c07b511114eb9bcfbdd36aaeb-s800-c85.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simone Biles is an American gymnast from Houston, Texas. As a child, Simone and her siblings were placed in foster homes until she was adopted by her grandfather. Simone started practicing gymnastics at the age of six. In 2012, she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/2019\/03\/15\/march-15-simone-biles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1375,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/marchisreadingmonth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}