{"id":14930,"date":"2017-01-22T05:27:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T10:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=14930"},"modified":"2025-05-27T14:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T18:06:10","slug":"alamw17-moving-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/alamw17-moving-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"#alamw17 Moving Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p>A swell of energy and sound reached my hotel room fourteen floors up. \u00a0Down in the streets of Atlanta women were marching and men were marching and families were marching. \u00a0There were chants and signs and a steady moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>Inside the walls as they passed us the American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference was taking place.<\/p>\n<p>I texted my daughter. \u00a0(You couldn&#8217;t text in the 60s but you can now.) \u00a0Sent her a picture of what it was like to be on the streets of Atlanta&#8230;marching along &#8230;I didn&#8217;t have a sign to carry &#8230;just two feet and a big smile. \u00a0Part of the roar and the swell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A swell of energy and sound reached my hotel room fourteen floors up. \u00a0Down in the streets of Atlanta women were marching and men were marching and families were marching. \u00a0There were chants and signs and a steady moving forward. Inside the walls as they passed us the American Library Association Mid-Winter Conference was taking place. I texted my daughter. \u00a0(You couldn&#8217;t text in the 60s but you can now.) \u00a0Sent her a picture of what it was like to be on the streets of Atlanta&#8230;marching along &#8230;I didn&#8217;t have a sign to carry &#8230;just two feet and a big smile. \u00a0Part of the roar and the swell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":221,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1153,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2017","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}