{"id":1157,"date":"2012-01-30T20:41:48","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T20:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1157"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:21:43","slug":"human-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2012\/01\/30\/human-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Human libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/105402869618691658819\/The1stLivingLibraryRoskildeFestival00\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1158\" title=\"LL-DK Graf Crew Finish\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/ll-dk-graf-crew-finish.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>According to <a title=\"Human Library\" href=\"http:\/\/humanlibrary.org\/\">humanlibrary.org<\/a>, the first human library took place in 2000 in Denmark. Other human libraries are sprouting up all over the world. Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/48333\/library-in-utah-lending-human-books\/\">article<\/a> about one in Utah, where you can &#8220;check out&#8221;\u00a0Mormon Turned Pagan, Female Gamer, and Extreme Weather Chaser. Thanks, <a title=\"Aubrey Hirsch\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aubreyhirsch.com\/\">Aubrey Hirsch<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to humanlibrary.org, the first human library took place in 2000 in Denmark. Other human libraries are sprouting up all over the world. Here&#8217;s an article about one in Utah, where you can &#8220;check out&#8221;\u00a0Mormon Turned Pagan, Female Gamer, and Extreme Weather Chaser. Thanks, Aubrey Hirsch!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-iF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4116,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1157\/revisions\/4116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}