{"id":597,"date":"2004-09-20T00:03:22","date_gmt":"2004-09-20T08:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/20\/library-geek\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:21:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:21:01","slug":"library-geek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/09\/20\/library-geek\/","title":{"rendered":"Library Geek"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcphee.com\/laf\/index.html\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Librarian Action Figure<\/a>!  Really, I do.  There are some quotes on the page that I like a lot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Jorge Luis Borges\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\nIn the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Linton Weeks<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d also enjoy reading Ms. Pearl&#8217;s book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/1570613818\/qid=1059260977\/sr=8-2\/ref=sr_8_2\/002-9099177-1388866?v=glance&#038;s=books&#038;n=507846\" target=\"blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Book Lust:  Recommended Reading for Every Mood, Moment, and Reason<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m feeling wistful for Austin and its variety of toy stores, such as <a href=\"http:\/\/travel.yahoo.com\/p-travelguide-2741798-toy_joy_austin-i\">Toy Joy<\/a> and throughout <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookpeople.com\/\">Book People<\/a>.  Here, for example, is another reason Austin is weird:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"photopost\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mindfulone\/109578465\/\" title=\"Photo\nSharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/55\/109578465_6a77243705.jpg\"\nwidth=\"500\" height=\"430\" alt=\"jesus action figure\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"photopostattribution\">&#8220;Jesus Action Figure&#8221; by Kathryn Petro \/ &copy;2003<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want a Librarian Action Figure! Really, I do. There are some quotes on the page that I like a lot: I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. &#8211;Jorge Luis Borges In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim. &#8211;Linton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13,30,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humanities","category-humor","category-quotes","category-regional","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12042,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/12042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}