{"id":5850,"date":"2013-01-26T09:52:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T14:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=5850"},"modified":"2013-01-26T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T16:03:19","slug":"opening-night-alamw13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/opening-night-alamw13\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening Night #alamw13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/opening-night-alamw13\/space-needle\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5851\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5851\" alt=\"space needle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/space-needle-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/space-needle-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/space-needle-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/space-needle.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Opening night at ALA Midwinter is party time. Last night I attended Holiday House&#8217;s Reception at the Space Needle. They always put on a lovely party, with books, authors, illustrators, food, drink and last night, a fantastic view.<\/p>\n<p>After that I headed over to Pike Place Market for Random House&#8217;s Reception. Harriet Ziefert was there, how awesome is that?? She was signing her new book: <em>The Princess and the Peas and Carrots<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/opening-night-alamw13\/pike-place\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-5852\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5852\" alt=\"pike place\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pike-place-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pike-place-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pike-place-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/pike-place.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The parties were absolutely lovely, but after a long day of travel, I was quite exhausted. This morning I am up bright an early (too early really, I am operating on Minnesota time) and headed to a Harper Collins breakfast and then the ALSC Divisional Leadership Meeting. It should be another fun and exciting day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opening night at ALA Midwinter is party time. Last night I attended Holiday House&#8217;s Reception at the Space Needle. They always put on a lovely party, with books, authors, illustrators, food, drink and last night, a fantastic view. After that I headed over to Pike Place Market for Random House&#8217;s Reception. Harriet Ziefert was there, how awesome is that?? She was signing her new book: The Princess and the Peas and Carrots. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The parties were absolutely lovely, but after a long day of travel, I was quite exhausted. This morning I am up bright an early (too early really, I am operating on Minnesota time) and headed to a Harper Collins breakfast and then the ALSC Divisional Leadership Meeting. It should be another fun and exciting day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"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":[317,122,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ala-midwinter-2013","category-blogger-heather-acerro","category-live-blogging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850","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\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5850\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}