{"id":3375,"date":"2018-12-07T15:09:31","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T22:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:49:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:49:46","slug":"marian-engels-bear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2018\/12\/07\/marian-engels-bear\/","title":{"rendered":"Marian Engel&#8217;s Bear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bear_(novel)\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-3376 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/12\/paperbackcoverofbearbymarianengel.jpg\" alt=\"PaperbackCoverofBearbyMarianEngel\" width=\"245\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/12\/paperbackcoverofbearbymarianengel.jpg 245w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/12\/paperbackcoverofbearbymarianengel-181x300.jpg 181w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Marian Engel&#8217;s novel <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bear_(novel)\">Bear<\/a><\/em>, first published in 1976, is about a love affair between a librarian and a bear.<\/p>\n<p>Yes it is.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to read it, it may be available in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/\">library near you<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/real_danshapiro\">Daniel M. Shapiro<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marian Engel&#8217;s novel Bear, first published in 1976, is about a love affair between a librarian and a bear. Yes it is. If you would like to read it, it may be available in a library near you. Thanks, Daniel M. Shapiro.<\/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-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Sr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","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=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}