{"id":4985,"date":"2012-09-21T16:13:43","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T20:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=4985"},"modified":"2012-09-21T21:32:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T01:32:16","slug":"alsc12-gary-paulsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2012\/09\/alsc12-gary-paulsen\/","title":{"rendered":"#ALSC12 &#8211; Gary Paulsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love words, I love stories, I love books. \u00a0But Gary Paulsen&#8217;s author luncheon left me speechless, but in all the best ways possible. \u00a0I laughed until I snorted; then I laughed until I cried, then I just cried.<\/p>\n<p>Hands down, the best author experience I&#8217;ve ever had. \u00a0I could sit here and weep, but I don&#8217;t want to misspell anything. \u00a0The emotional response I had was one of the greatest, of my life.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Paulsen gets us, more than I think we get us. \u00a0We being Children&#8217;s Librarians. \u00a0I will always be able to say that I heard Gary Paulsen speak, I have a signed book, and I will never forget this opportunity, first hand, to peek into the world of a master storyteller like Gary Paulsen. \u00a0Thank you Gary for sharing your story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love words, I love stories, I love books. \u00a0But Gary Paulsen&#8217;s author luncheon left me speechless, but in all the best ways possible. \u00a0I laughed until I snorted; then I laughed until I cried, then I just cried. Hands down, the best author experience I&#8217;ve ever had. \u00a0I could sit here and weep, but I don&#8217;t want to misspell anything. \u00a0The emotional response I had was one of the greatest, of my life. Gary Paulsen gets us, more than I think we get us. \u00a0We being Children&#8217;s Librarians. \u00a0I will always be able to say that I heard Gary Paulsen speak, I have a signed book, and I will never forget this opportunity, first hand, to peek into the world of a master storyteller like Gary Paulsen. \u00a0Thank you Gary for sharing your story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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":[292],"class_list":["post-4985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-institute-2012","category-live-blogging","tag-live-blogging-institute2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}