Gary Paulsen gave a great after-lunch talk today. He wasn’t afraid to tell it as it is, which gave his speech a rare honesty. It felt somewhat like sitting around a camp fire, listening to an old friend tell his life story. I love Paulsen’s books. They have a spirit of adventure and connectedness to natural surroundings that very few books– especially children’s books– have today. That same spirit came through in Paulsen’s presentation.<\/p>\n
Thank you, Mr. Paulsen, for sharing your humor and your wisdom with us today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Gary Paulsen gave a great after-lunch talk today. He wasn’t afraid to tell it as it is, which gave his speech a rare honesty. It felt somewhat like sitting around a camp fire, listening to an old friend tell his life story. I love Paulsen’s books. They have a spirit of adventure and connectedness to natural surroundings that very few books– especially children’s books– have today. That same spirit came through in Paulsen’s presentation. Thank you, Mr. Paulsen, for sharing your humor and your wisdom with us today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":173,"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":[291,800],"class_list":["post-5010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-institute-2012","category-live-blogging","tag-institute2012","tag-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010","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\/173"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}