Parsing Google Calendar start_time for TTS

How are y’all parsing out the start time attribute for use in a TTS message. I only want the date and I need it in a way that sounds converational i.e. “2019-09-02 09:00:00” would become “September 2nd” or “September 2nd 2019”

Thanks!

You can use pythons strftime in a template.
Here is a solution for the suffix