{"id":1128,"date":"2021-08-02T06:50:13","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T13:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=1128"},"modified":"2021-08-01T14:31:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T21:31:02","slug":"mia-hamm-striking-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/mia-hamm-striking-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Mia Hamm: Striking Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/miahammstrikinggold-595x759.jpg?resize=525%2C670&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"670\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-14923\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Mia Hamm: Striking Gold<\/em><br \/>\nby Joe Levit (Author)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/37aazcW\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781728404301\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781728404301?aff=anasuen09\">IndieBound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Soccer superstar Mia Hamm was a goal-scoring machine. At 15, she joined the US Women&#8217;s National Team. In college, Hamm led her team to four straight national championships. And in 1999, she made history, breaking the all-time record for goals scored in international matches. Learn more about Hamm&#8217;s life and the moments that made her a soccer legend.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/l_9781728404301_int.jpg?resize=402%2C269&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"269\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-14924\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mia Hamm: Striking Gold by Joe Levit (Author) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Soccer superstar Mia Hamm was a goal-scoring machine. At 15, she joined the US Women&#8217;s National Team. In college, Hamm led her team to four straight national championships. And in 1999, she made history, breaking the all-time record for goals &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/mia-hamm-striking-gold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mia Hamm: Striking Gold&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-ic","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":246,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/us-womens-national-team-soccer-champions\/","url_meta":{"origin":1128,"position":0},"title":"US Women&#8217;s National Team: Soccer Champions","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"January 14, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"US Women's National Team: Soccer Champions by Jeff Savage (Author) Booktalk: The US Women\u2019s National Team has won more Olympic gold medals and Women\u2019s World Cup titles than any other team. 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