{"id":3729,"date":"2013-01-09T15:49:33","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T22:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1461"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:23:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:23:48","slug":"under-desk-shenanigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2013\/01\/09\/under-desk-shenanigan\/","title":{"rendered":"Under-desk shenanigan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/underdesk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1492\" alt=\"underdesk\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/underdesk.jpg?w=224\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/underdesk2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1493\" alt=\"underdesk2\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/underdesk2.jpg?w=112\" width=\"112\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/underdesk3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1491\" alt=\"underdesk3\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/underdesk3.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>At the University of Illinois at Chicago, staff discovered this diary and drawing written on the underside of a table in the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.uic.edu\/daley\">Daley Library<\/a>. It was probably written mostly in the spring of 1988; one entry (&#8220;Totaled my Dad&#8217;s car&#8221;) is dated May, 1988.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s likely this shenanigan would never have been discovered if the staff hadn&#8217;t decided to redecorate. When they dismantled the table, they found this bit of history.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/researchguides.uic.edu\/gregory\">Gwen Gregory<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0 &nbsp; At the University of Illinois at Chicago, staff discovered this diary and drawing written on the underside of a table in the Daley Library. It was probably written mostly in the spring of 1988; one entry (&#8220;Totaled my Dad&#8217;s car&#8221;) is dated May, 1988. It&#8217;s likely this shenanigan would never have been discovered [&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-3729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Y9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729","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=3729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3729\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}