{"id":14977,"date":"2017-01-22T17:39:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-22T22:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=14977"},"modified":"2017-02-10T13:14:00","modified_gmt":"2017-02-10T18:14:00","slug":"alamw17-kwame-alexander-ala-presidents-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/alamw17-kwame-alexander-ala-presidents-program\/","title":{"rendered":"#alamw17 Kwame Alexander at the ALA President&#8217;s Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14978 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-16-443x650.jpeg\" alt=\"Kwame Alexander: My head is all over the place. This election, this country has me swimming across a roaring sea of emotions. This is not our country, and yet it is. At no cost, we overthrow ignorance with imaginaion, inspiration, and ideas that kids will change the world. We are the army. Fire your weapons! Aim for all the kids! Books have a job to do. Books connect us to each ourselves and each other.\" width=\"443\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-16-443x650.jpeg 443w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-16-204x300.jpeg 204w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-16-768x1127.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-16-341x500.jpeg 341w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-16-61x90.jpeg 61w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 443px) 100vw, 443px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14979 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-17-650x527.jpeg\" alt=\"Poems offer a beginning, middle and end. Kids use novels in verse as a bridge. Books are like amusement parks and sometimes you gotta let kids choose the rides.\" width=\"640\" height=\"519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-17-650x527.jpeg 650w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-17-300x243.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-17-768x623.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-17-616x500.jpeg 616w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-17-111x90.jpeg 111w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14980 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-18-419x650.jpeg\" alt=\"You Have to find your voice to resist. Will you be listened to? Who knows. Will you feel empowered to carry on the work? Absolutely. We will survive. Black Americans have been wading in teh water since we got here. Remember, recognize, resist, rise. America will will the battle against itself. BEcause the alternative is unimaginable. And here in this room we are nothing if not imaginative.\" width=\"419\" height=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-18-419x650.jpeg 419w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-18-194x300.jpeg 194w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-18-768x1191.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-18-323x500.jpeg 323w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-18-58x90.jpeg 58w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/image-18.jpeg 1852w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-indent: 20px;width: auto;padding: 0px 4px 0px 0px;text-align: center;font: bold 11px\/20px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,sans-serif;color: #ffffff;background: #bd081c  no-repeat scroll 3px 50% \/ 14px 14px;cursor: pointer\">Save<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Save<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"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":[1153,830,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2017","category-blogger-lisa-nowlain","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977","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\/220"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}