{"id":3720,"date":"2012-09-19T18:35:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T00:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:20:23","slug":"11-amazing-library-tattoos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2012\/09\/19\/11-amazing-library-tattoos\/","title":{"rendered":"11 Amazing Library Tattoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/blogs\/archives\/141087\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/new-tattoo.jpg?w=332\" alt=\"Image\" width=\"332\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a>Thank you, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentalfloss.com\/\"><em>Mental Floss<\/em><\/a>, for featuring these gorgeous library tattoos. Do I recognize a librarian friend in one of these pictures? Maybe &#8230;. just maybe. Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/mycrains.crainsnewyork.com\/40under40\/profiles\/2009\/steven-kotok\">Steven Kotok<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/waitingforhungry.blogspot.com\/\">David Weinstock<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2012\/09\/13\/librarian-tattoos.html\">BoingBoing<\/a>! (But most of all Steven Kotok, who sent this to me hot off the press, almost literally.)<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re considering a library tattoo yourself, but aren&#8217;t sure if you&#8217;re ready to commit, perhaps <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shakespearesden.com\/librarian-temporary-tattoos-book.html\">these temporary tattoos<\/a> would be a good compromise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank you, Mental Floss, for featuring these gorgeous library tattoos. Do I recognize a librarian friend in one of these pictures? Maybe &#8230;. just maybe. Thanks, Steven Kotok, David Weinstock, and BoingBoing! (But most of all Steven Kotok, who sent this to me hot off the press, almost literally.) If you&#8217;re considering a library tattoo [&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-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Y0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","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=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4040,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/4040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}