{"id":4929,"date":"2012-09-20T18:28:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T22:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=4929"},"modified":"2012-09-20T22:42:56","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T02:42:56","slug":"will-you-be-my-friend-alsc12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/will-you-be-my-friend-alsc12\/","title":{"rendered":"Will you be my friend @ #ALSC12?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving to Indianapolis this morning I had a Lucy the bear moment. Lucy is the main character from Peter Brown&#8217;s book You Will Be My Friend. While driving I was thinking about how great it would be to attend sessions and hear Peter Brown speak at the ALSC Institute. Then I thought I have to make new friends! This seemed a little scary at first. Then I realized it may be easier than I thought. No awkward small talk required. We all have some something in common! After arriving I quickly made new friends thanks to topics such as what do you do at your library ? What author are you excited to see? I&#8217;ve come a long way since my mom gave me a roll of quarters jokingly incase I needed to make new friends at dance camp!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving to Indianapolis this morning I had a Lucy the bear moment. Lucy is the main character from Peter Brown&#8217;s book You Will Be My Friend. While driving I was thinking about how great it would be to attend sessions and hear Peter Brown speak at the ALSC Institute. Then I thought I have to make new friends! This seemed a little scary at first. Then I realized it may be easier than I thought. No awkward small talk required. We all have some something in common! After arriving I quickly made new friends thanks to topics such as what do you do at your library ? What author are you excited to see? I&#8217;ve come a long way since my mom gave me a roll of quarters jokingly incase I needed to make new friends at dance camp!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"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":[192,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-institute-2012","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929","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\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}