{"id":19221,"date":"2018-09-27T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=19221"},"modified":"2018-09-28T07:14:43","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T11:14:43","slug":"leaving-on-a-jetplane-to-present-at-the-alsc18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/leaving-on-a-jetplane-to-present-at-the-alsc18\/","title":{"rendered":"Leaving On A Jetplane to Present at the #alsc18"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this I am waiting at the airport ready to continue my journey to #alsc18 and so excited to #act4kids by presenting to rooms filled with my passionate peers. I won&#8217;t lie to you friends, I am shaking in my sandals right now. I have presented before, but this feels like the biggest thing I have ever done in this profession. Having never attended the Institute before, I feel like a newbie that is being thrown in the ring waiting to battle Ali or Tyson.<\/p>\n<p>These are good nerves though.<\/p>\n<p>If you are passionate about what you do, I am sure you have had an idea worthy of sharing. One of the best feelings, apart from hot fudge sundaes and toddler giggles, is contributing to your profession in a way that moves it forward. I am hopeful that my program, Grown-ups Are People Too, will do just that.<\/p>\n<p>The posts I share this week will hopefully include things like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a food selfie with great friends,<\/li>\n<li>what it is like to eat breakfast with Margarita Engle,\u00a0Ra\u00fal Col\u00f3n, and Mike Curato,<\/li>\n<li>which exhibit has the best swag (or treats because small bites of candy keep me going), and<\/li>\n<li>that my team triumphed at ALSC Trivia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Beyond that, I will do my best to provide a glimpse into what it is like to present at the ALSC Institute. Hopefully there are a few readers out there who are inspired to submit for ALSC 2020.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I write this I am waiting at the airport ready to continue my journey to #alsc18 and so excited to #act4kids by presenting to rooms filled with my passionate peers. I won&#8217;t lie to you friends, I am shaking in my sandals right now. I have presented before, but this feels like the biggest thing I have ever done in this profession. Having never attended the Institute before, I feel like a newbie that is being thrown in the ring waiting to battle Ali or Tyson. These are good nerves though. If you are passionate about what you do, I am sure you have had an idea worthy of sharing. One of the best feelings, apart from hot fudge sundaes and toddler giggles, is contributing to your profession in a way that moves it forward. I am hopeful that my program, Grown-ups Are People Too, will do just that&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":316,"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":[134,1455,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-blogger","category-institute-2018","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19221","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\/316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}