{"id":23464,"date":"2020-06-24T13:19:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=23464"},"modified":"2020-06-24T13:20:01","modified_gmt":"2020-06-24T17:20:01","slug":"welcome-to-alavirtual20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/welcome-to-alavirtual20\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to #ALAVirtual20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Welcome to #ALAVirtual20! I had been looking forward to my first visit to Chicago and the home of #ALA, but I am still excited to spend the next few days immersed in everything LIBRARY! I started my conference with an ALA Happy Hour via Zoom. Mixologist Andres Arias showed us all how to make Palomas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"416\" height=\"139\" class=\"wp-image-23465\" style=\"width: 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Paloma.png\" alt=\"Paloma Recipe\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Paloma.png 416w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Paloma-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Paloma-160x53.png 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 416px) 100vw, 416px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Paloma, one of the best-selling cocktails in Mexico, was first created in Mexico and is similar to a margarita. With drinks in hand, we then broke into small groups to meet each other and discuss our favorite drinks, Chicago, and, inevitably, Covid19.&nbsp; We were then challenged to some trivia about Chicago, home of 5 major league sports teams in addition to some amazing libraries! While I knew Chicago was famous for its deep dish pizza, I learned that brownies originated in Chicago (at the Palmer House) and about Holy Cow dark chocolate potato chips created by Italian steakhouse Harry Caray. Needless to say, I can&#8217;t wait for next year&#8217;s annual conference in Chicago&#8230;my mouth is watering! As always at Annual, last night, I got to talk to some great librarians from around the country. This was a great start to our virtual conference. Happy Annual Conference!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to #ALAVirtual20! I had been looking forward to my first visit to Chicago and the home of #ALA, but I am still excited to spend the next few days immersed in everything LIBRARY! I started my conference with an ALA Happy Hour via Zoom. Mixologist Andres Arias showed us all how to make Palomas. The Paloma, one of the best-selling cocktails in Mexico, was first created in Mexico and is similar to a margarita. With drinks in hand, we then broke into small groups to meet each other and discuss our favorite drinks, Chicago, and, inevitably, Covid19.&nbsp; We were then challenged to some trivia about Chicago, home of 5 major league sports teams in addition to some amazing libraries! While I knew Chicago was famous for its deep dish pizza, I learned that brownies originated in Chicago (at the Palmer House) and about Holy Cow dark chocolate potato chips&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":308,"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":[2020,134,151,1],"tags":[2023,398,2024,1310],"class_list":["post-23464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-virtual-conference-2020","category-guest-blogger","category-live-blogging","category-uncategorized","tag-alavirtual20","tag-chicago","tag-happy-hour","tag-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23464","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\/308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}