{"id":159,"date":"2016-09-10T21:33:02","date_gmt":"2016-09-11T02:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/?page_id=159"},"modified":"2020-09-29T20:08:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T01:08:39","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Revenge of the Librarian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Taking over the world<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn&#8217;t high on my list of things to do, this taking over the world. Then I realized the power librarians have: they hold the answer to every possible question in the palm of their hands (once they find a good source, that is). With this simple understanding of how life works, I set out to become a master of information. I would one day understand it all. I would one day know everything (or, at the very least, how to go about finding it).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>42? Pfft. No longer is the answer to life, the universe, and everything able to be whittled down to just two little numbers. It&#8217;s a veritable compendium of information!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">&#8220;Very senior librarians, however, once they had proved themselves worthy by performing some valiant act of librarianship, are accepted into a secret order\u00a0and are taught the raw arts of survival beyond the Shelves We Know.&#8221;<br>(Terry Pratchett in\u00a0<em>Guards! Guards!<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-160 size-full\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"417\" src=\"http:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/time-and-space.png\" alt=\"time-and-space\" class=\"wp-image-160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/time-and-space.png 624w, https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/09\/time-and-space-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 624px) 100vw, 624px\" \/><figcaption><strong>Photo credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/kruzul\/8760128867\/\">kruzul<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/foter.com\/\">Foter.com<\/a> \/ <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">CC BY-SA<\/a><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taking over the world It wasn&#8217;t high on my list of things to do, this taking over the world. Then I realized the power librarians have: they hold the answer to every possible question in the palm of their hands (once they find a good source, that is). With this simple understanding of how life [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-159","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/159\/revisions\/275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}