{"id":1521,"date":"2013-02-01T11:20:43","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T18:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:20:57","slug":"blind-date-with-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2013\/02\/01\/blind-date-with-a-book\/","title":{"rendered":"blind date with a book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=10151264933173650&amp;set=a.128861503649.106942.94990393649&amp;type=1&amp;theater\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1522 alignleft\" alt=\"blinddate\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/blinddate.jpg?w=436\" width=\"436\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/02\/blinddate.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/02\/blinddate-288x300.jpg 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 436px) 100vw, 436px\" \/><\/a>Many libraries have perpetrated this shenanigan, including the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/lawrencepubliclibrary\">Lawrence Public Library<\/a> in Kansas, the <a href=\"http:\/\/maplewoodlibraryprograms.blogspot.com\/2011\/02\/blind-date-with-book.html\">Maplewood Memorial Library<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/myhillsdalelibrary.org\/2013\/01\/28\/blind-date-with-a-book\/\">Hillsdale Public Library<\/a> in New Jersey, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rvclibrary.org\/readers\/blog\/223-blind-date-with-a-book\">Rockville Centre Public Library<\/a> in New York, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duboiscountyfreepress.com\/jasper-library-blind-date-with-a-book\/\">Jasper Public Library<\/a> in Indiana, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amarillolibrary.org\/?page_id=1095\">Amarillo Public Library<\/a> in Texas, and many, many more. Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sundresspublications.com\/\">Sundress Publications<\/a>, for drawing my attention to this!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many libraries have perpetrated this shenanigan, including the Lawrence Public Library in Kansas, the Maplewood Memorial Library and the Hillsdale Public Library in New Jersey, the Rockville Centre Public Library in New York, the Jasper Public Library in Indiana, the Amarillo Public Library in Texas, and many, many more. Thanks, Sundress Publications, for drawing my [&hellip;]<\/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-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-ox","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","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=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4058,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}