{"id":11350,"date":"2015-03-02T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/?p=11350"},"modified":"2015-03-16T17:29:04","modified_gmt":"2015-03-16T17:29:04","slug":"the-importance-of-school-breakfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/e\/the-importance-of-school-breakfast\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of School Breakfast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>National School Breakfast Week is March 2-6, 2015<\/strong>.\u00a0 The theme is\u00a0\u201cMake the Grade with School Breakfast.\u201d It highlights how eating a nutritious breakfast helps students achieve success in the classroom and beyond.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eric P Nelson<\/strong> is a guest blogger this week and\u00a0Principal at Fontenelle Elementary here in Omaha, Nebraska.\u00a0 He writes &#8220;The school bell rings and hundreds of eager students are moving swiftly through the breakfast line anxiously awaiting the healthy meal they are about to put into their \u201cgrab-n-go\u201d bag.\u00a0 School breakfast is offered all over the State of Nebraska and participation continues to rise every year.\u00a0 Children everywhere are able to start the day in a calm, relaxed atmosphere that is filled with opportunities to talk with peers, academic intervention groups, one on one time with their teacher, and various other strategies.\u00a0 The children are showing up on time, on task and ready to learn.\u00a0 I believe that school breakfast is the ultimate beginning to a productive \u201cbell-to-bell\u201d day that includes academic success, social and emotional stability and food security.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src='http:\/\/district.ops.org\/DesktopModules\/UltraVideoGallery\/Popup.aspx?PortalId=0&#038;Mode=Lightbox&#038;VideoId=451' width='576' height='482'  frameborder='0' scrolling='no'><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; National School Breakfast Week is March 2-6, 2015.\u00a0 The theme is\u00a0\u201cMake the Grade with School Breakfast.\u201d It highlights how eating a nutritious breakfast helps students achieve success in the classroom and beyond. &nbsp; Eric P Nelson is a guest blogger this week and\u00a0Principal at Fontenelle Elementary here in Omaha, Nebraska.\u00a0 He writes &#8220;The school bell rings and hundreds&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/e\/the-importance-of-school-breakfast\/\" class=\"read-more\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11351,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-e","cat-42-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/National-school-breakfast.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11350"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11353,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11350\/revisions\/11353"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nutritionknowhow.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}