{"id":20213,"date":"2019-01-25T17:13:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T22:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=20213"},"modified":"2019-01-25T18:54:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T23:54:18","slug":"alamw19-its-almost-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2019\/01\/alamw19-its-almost-time\/","title":{"rendered":"#alamw19 It&#8217;s Almost Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-20209 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0021-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0021-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0021-120x90.jpg 120w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/IMG_0021.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>What should I pack? Decisions, decisions. I\u2019m going from negative temperatures to a beautiful (and I don\u2019t mean that sarcastically) 50 degrees so knowing what to pack is a bit tricky. Especially when I have so many literary accessories and it\u2019s so cold at home and so mild in Seattle. The thing to remember if you\u2019ve never been to a conference of this size is to pack light so you can bring as much swag back as possible! The other option is to ship your swag back or try to limit your swag accumulation, which is difficult. I tell myself each time that I will not take too much stuff, but it\u2019s so hard to say no to tote bags and ARCs (Advanced Reading Copies).<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m looking forward to the opening exhibits tonight, the showing of Emilio Estevez\u2019s film <em>The Public<\/em>, the YMAs and much, much more! We\u2019ve just arrived and I am already feeling the excitement!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What should I pack? Decisions, decisions. I\u2019m going from negative temperatures to a beautiful (and I don\u2019t mean that sarcastically) 50 degrees so knowing what to pack is a bit tricky. Especially when I have so many literary accessories and it\u2019s so cold at home and so mild in Seattle. The thing to remember if you\u2019ve never been to a conference of this size is to pack light so you can bring as much swag back as possible! The other option is to ship your swag back or try to limit your swag accumulation, which is difficult. I tell myself each time that I will not take too much stuff, but it\u2019s so hard to say no to tote bags and ARCs (Advanced Reading Copies). I\u2019m looking forward to the opening exhibits tonight, the showing of Emilio Estevez\u2019s film The Public, the YMAs and much, much more! We\u2019ve just arrived&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":323,"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":[1659,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2019","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20213","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\/323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}