{"id":164,"date":"2016-09-18T01:09:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-18T06:09:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/?p=164"},"modified":"2016-09-18T22:18:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T03:18:40","slug":"books-librarians-change-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/2016\/09\/18\/books-librarians-change-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Books (and librarians) change lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This StoryCorps video did my heart good, so I want to pass it along.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/11OvHcgh-E4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s also an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/05\/30\/317035044\/once-forbidden-books-become-a-lifeline-for-a-young-migrant-worker\">NPR story about Storm Reyes<\/a>, whose story is in the video. The best part of all is how she ended up working in a library system for more than 30 years, all thanks to one bookmobile and one welcoming and giving librarian.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I took them home and I devoured them. I didn&#8217;t just read them, I <em>devoured<\/em> them,&#8221; Storm says. &#8220;And I came back in two weeks and had more questions. And he gave me more books, and that started it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This StoryCorps video did my heart good, so I want to pass it along. Here&#8217;s also an NPR story about Storm Reyes, whose story is in the video. The best part of all is how she ended up working in a library system for more than 30 years, all thanks to one bookmobile and one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,44,35,26],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-164","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-education","7":"category-librarians-and-libraries","8":"category-philosophy-of-librarianship","9":"category-saving-the-world","10":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gilbertredman.com\/librarianrevenge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}