{"id":3081,"date":"2013-05-18T00:22:44","date_gmt":"2013-05-18T04:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=3081"},"modified":"2013-05-27T13:06:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T17:06:07","slug":"how-to-torture-librarians-using-one-simple-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=3081","title":{"rendered":"How to torture librarians using one simple question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/naomih.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-5936 alignleft\" alt=\"naomih\" src=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/naomih-290x300.jpg\" width=\"126\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/naomih-290x300.jpg 290w, https:\/\/inalj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/naomih.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 126px) 100vw, 126px\" \/><\/a>Simply ask them what their favorite book is. It is like asking their favorite child. Or, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/show\/193851\"> Neil Gaiman <\/a>put it, &#8220;picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you&#8217;d most like not to lose.\u201d But I keep it as one of my <a href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?cat=11\">In Six <\/a>questions in no small part due to this particularly challenging aspect for librarians. And I am forever grateful to all of the fantastic book suggestions. Keep them coming!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>reposted from 6\/3\/12<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simply ask them what their favorite book is. It is like asking their favorite child. Or, as Neil Gaiman put it, &#8220;picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you&#8217;d most like not to lose.\u201d But I keep it as one of my In Six questions in no small part due to&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/inalj.com\/?p=3081\">Read more \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":""},"categories":[145],"tags":[4404,185],"class_list":["post-3081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-favorite-book","tag-neil-gaiman"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1WoMK-NH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inalj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}