{"id":20561,"date":"2019-02-28T12:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-02-28T17:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=20561"},"modified":"2019-02-27T15:39:35","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T20:39:35","slug":"snake-oil-salesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/snake-oil-salesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Snake oil salesperson?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-20562\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0700_001-copy-650x404.jpg\" alt=\"I'm a parent now! 6 months old and cute AF [image of baby]. I didn't read much about newborns when I was pregnant [image of pregnant person reading, only escapist YA fantasy]. When baby was born I flipped out and ordered 10000 books in a panic [image of person next to books saying HALP]. Man, most parenting books are so lame! Full of how your kids should be ]image of parent holding baby, saying &quot;you should be sleeping 3 more hours&quot; and baby saying gaa?]. Now I look at our parenting section wtih fear and distrust [image of person looking at books saying &quot;Snake oil!&quot; and books saying &quot;iron clad knowledge&quot; and &quot;truth&quot;.\" width=\"640\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0700_001-copy-650x404.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0700_001-copy-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0700_001-copy-768x477.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0700_001-copy-805x500.jpg 805w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/0700_001-copy-145x90.jpg 145w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you guys have a Parenting Section in your library? We moved one to the kids room and now I can barely look at it without feeling anxious, and I hesitate to recommend books. Maybe there&#8217;s an opportunity to teach media literacy to new parents?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Lisa Nowlain is a youth librarian and artist type in Nevada County. CA. Find her work at lisanowlain.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you guys have a Parenting Section in your library? We moved one to the kids room and now I can barely look at it without feeling anxious, and I hesitate to recommend books. Maybe there&#8217;s an opportunity to teach media literacy to new parents? &nbsp; Lisa Nowlain is a youth librarian and artist type in Nevada County. CA. Find her work at lisanowlain.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":220,"featured_media":20563,"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":[830,47],"tags":[1710],"class_list":["post-20561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogger-lisa-nowlain","category-collection-development","tag-parenting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20561","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=20561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}