{"id":15954,"date":"2017-06-23T06:34:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T10:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=15954"},"modified":"2017-06-25T09:15:56","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T13:15:56","slug":"alaac17-tip-1-flexible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/alaac17-tip-1-flexible\/","title":{"rendered":"#alaac17 Tip #1: Be Flexible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 5:30 am, and I am excited to get on my flight to my first ever ALA Annual. I have my favorite sessions planned, all of my committee discussion materials prepared, and what feels like a million booths that I am ready to visit. I arrive at the airport to find long lines, angry passengers, and one word: CANCELLED.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Tropical Storm Cindy is causing chaos across the country, and she managed to cancel my sold-out flight to Chicago. Luckily, I did manage to get a ticket on another flight heading out today. Instead of learning about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventscribe.com\/2017\/ALA-Annual\/fsPopup.asp?Mode=presInfo&amp;PresentationID=257861\">student transitions<\/a>\u00a0this afternoon, I will be able to fly into Chicago with some of my awesome coworkers and, in the meantime, get to know the ins and outs of the Columbus airport.<\/p>\n<p>ALA Annual Lesson #1: Be prepared to be flexible. I will get to Chicago when I get there, and in the meantime I get to figure out what a Burger King breakfast sandwich tastes like. With some luck, I will have better news to send back to everyone at home after the Printz reception this evening. Good luck to everyone else flying into Chicago this morning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s 5:30 am, and I am excited to get on my flight to my first ever ALA Annual. I have my favorite sessions planned, all of my committee discussion materials prepared, and what feels like a million booths that I am ready to visit. I arrive at the airport to find long lines, angry passengers, and one word: CANCELLED.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"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":[913,8,151],"tags":[1270,1275],"class_list":["post-15954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-annual-2017","category-conferencesmeetingsinstitutes","category-live-blogging","tag-alaac17","tag-ala-annual-2017"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15954","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\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}