{"id":3659,"date":"2010-12-15T17:01:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T17:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=956"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:21:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:21:51","slug":"library-dance-parties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2010\/12\/15\/library-dance-parties\/","title":{"rendered":"Library dance parties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7wy4RNEZMmI\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-957\" title=\"charleston\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/charleston.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a>Several institutions of higher learning offer (or suffer) library dance parties during exam week. Oberlin College&#8217;s five-minute dance breaks recently got some NPR coverage; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Sros7Wnvlvc\">this video<\/a> shows a sampling (sans music) at about 1:07 and forward. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tC0ltMGjlMU\">University of Montana<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aA4rlFTL45U\">Allegheny College<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=o0iseALGXPQ\">University of North Carolina-Wilmington<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OTKSnSrLkU4\">College of Charleston<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y_BgOlpy2ZY\">University of Virginia<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3gjEy5jg1u0\">University of Miami<\/a>, and many others also host (deliberately or not) dance parties small and large. Thanks, Carol Dickerson, Ray English, and others!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several institutions of higher learning offer (or suffer) library dance parties during exam week. Oberlin College&#8217;s five-minute dance breaks recently got some NPR coverage; this video shows a sampling (sans music) at about 1:07 and forward. The University of Montana, Allegheny College, the University of North Carolina-Wilmington, the College of Charleston, the University of Virginia, [&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-3659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-X1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659","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=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4142,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions\/4142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}