{"id":1955,"date":"2008-06-05T18:48:19","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T18:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1955"},"modified":"2008-06-05T18:48:19","modified_gmt":"2008-06-05T18:48:19","slug":"check_me_out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1955","title":{"rendered":"Check Me Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, you can get just about anything at the library these days. Not just the usual stuff like books and DVDs, but actual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/2008\/0605\/p01s02-wogn.html\">conversations with fascinating and exotic people<\/a>. So-called &#8220;Living Libraries&#8221; give patrons the opportunity to reserve thirty-minute blocks of time with individuals of varying backgrounds; the idea being that face-to-face dialog is sometimes the best way to understand a perspective different than your own. If this concept ever comes to my local library, I&#8217;m going to sign up as a volunteer. I&#8217;m all kinds of interesting. But I&#8217;m going to give everyone this list of bullet points to prevent every conversation from covering the same boring territory: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No, I&#8217;m not in pain.<\/li>\n<li>No, I was not in an accident.<\/li>\n<li>No, I won&#8217;t give you free legal advice. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, you can get just about anything at the library these days. Not just the usual stuff like books and DVDs, but actual conversations with fascinating and exotic people. So-called &#8220;Living Libraries&#8221; give patrons the opportunity to reserve thirty-minute blocks of time with individuals of varying backgrounds; the idea being that face-to-face dialog is sometimes <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1955' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-vx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}