{"id":19249,"date":"2018-09-27T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-27T21:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=19249"},"modified":"2018-09-28T15:36:55","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T19:36:55","slug":"found-my-tribe-alsc18-and-act4kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2018\/09\/found-my-tribe-alsc18-and-act4kids\/","title":{"rendered":"Found my **tribe! #alsc18 and #act4kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALSC has confirmed my belief that I&#8217;ve <strong>finally<\/strong> found my <em>**tribe.<\/em> 400+ children&#8217;s librarians in the same place at the same time = (creativity + energy + service) * love. Today, here, among people like me, I&#8217;m not a shy wallflower. Please sir, I want some more.<\/p>\n<p>**It has been brought to my attention that the word &#8220;tribe&#8221; is non-inclusive and my use of it may have been hurtful to others. That was certainly not my intent. I was trying to find a single word that conveyed my profound sense of belonging, and words such as &#8220;family&#8221; and &#8220;people&#8221; simply do not resonate in that way to me. I&#8217;m sorry for hurting anyone&#8217;s feelings. In future I will be more careful with my word choices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALSC has confirmed my belief that I&#8217;ve finally found my **tribe. 400+ children&#8217;s librarians in the same place at the same time = (creativity + energy + service) * love. Today, here, among people like me, I&#8217;m not a shy wallflower. Please sir, I want some more. **It has been brought to my attention that the word &#8220;tribe&#8221; is non-inclusive and my use of it may have been hurtful to others. That was certainly not my intent. I was trying to find a single word that conveyed my profound sense of belonging, and words such as &#8220;family&#8221; and &#8220;people&#8221; simply do not resonate in that way to me. I&#8217;m sorry for hurting anyone&#8217;s feelings. In future I will be more careful with my word choices. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":318,"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":[134,1459,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-blogger","category-institute-2018-conferencesmeetingsinstitutes","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19249","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\/318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}