{"id":804,"date":"2008-11-06T14:58:05","date_gmt":"2008-11-06T20:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/?p=804"},"modified":"2008-11-06T14:59:05","modified_gmt":"2008-11-06T20:59:05","slug":"john-irving-in-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/archives\/804","title":{"rendered":"John Irving in libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine works at the Plymouth Regional High School in NH. He&#8217;s responsible for their zine collection and their movie club (therefore fits neatly into the &#8216;hot librarian&#8217; category).<\/p>\n<p>He pinged me to brag that after their committee to evaluate challenged books (to non-library\/school folk,   I mean books that are scrutinized for being inappropriate) sat down to look at John Irving&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/work\/5162\">Hotel New Hampshire<\/a>&#8220;, and <a href=\"http:\/\/prhslib.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/recently-john-irvings-hotel-new.html\">deemed it appropriate enough to stay.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The head librarian wrote a letter to John Irving, and <a href=\"http:\/\/prhslib.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/blog-post.html\"> he wrote them back, and sent signed copies of 5 of his books<\/a>. How awesome is that?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZKywd28hbx0\/SRMJ6tGpYDI\/AAAAAAAAAVU\/bnHl3SfqN9M\/s1600-h\/johnirving.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5265563293470777394\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 246px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZKywd28hbx0\/SRMJ6tGpYDI\/AAAAAAAAAVU\/bnHl3SfqN9M\/s320\/johnirving.JPG\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine how many letters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarything.com\/author\/salingerjd\">J.D. Salinger<\/a> would have to write?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend of mine works at the Plymouth Regional High School in NH. He&#8217;s responsible for their zine collection and their movie club (therefore fits neatly into the &#8216;hot librarian&#8217; category). He pinged me to brag that after their committee to evaluate challenged books (to non-library\/school folk, I mean books that are scrutinized for being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[94,96,95],"class_list":["post-804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-librarical","tag-banned-books","tag-hotel-new-hampshire","tag-john-irving"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outsidecat.com\/wordvehicle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}