{"id":1051,"date":"2017-03-03T15:26:18","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T21:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2017-03-03T15:26:18","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T21:26:18","slug":"what-ive-been-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/?p=1051","title":{"rendered":"What I&#8217;ve been up to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my, it&#8217;s been too long since I&#8217;ve posted! Which also means I haven&#8217;t been doing very many storytimes lately. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>I am currently subbing from time to time at the desk in the Kidspace at <a title=\"Gail Borden Library\" href=\"http:\/\/gailborden.info\" target=\"_blank\">Gail Borden Public Library<\/a>&#8230; where I also volunteer to cover storytime every now and then. I&#8217;m on the lookout for a part-time library job\/new storytime home where I can regularly do storytimes again.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, I&#8217;ve also been writing and submitting children&#8217;s books (mostly picture books but also a wacky lower middle grade book&#8230; all with a thread of silliness, of course). I&#8217;m really enjoying the process and the journey&#8230; and I hope that one day I&#8217;ll be able to get published and read my own book at storytime!<\/p>\n<p>I am also leading\u00a0a series of <a title=\"Story Theater registration\" href=\"http:\/\/gailbweb.gailborden.info\/evanced\/lib\/eventsignup.asp?ID=38147&amp;rts=&amp;disptype=&amp;ret=eventcalendar.asp&amp;pointer=&amp;returnToSearch=&amp;num=0&amp;ad=&amp;dt=mo&amp;mo=3\/1\/2017&amp;df=calendar&amp;EventType=ALL&amp;Lib=4&amp;AgeGroup=ALL&amp;LangType=0&amp;WindowMode=&amp;noheader=&amp;lad=&amp;pub=1&amp;nopub=&amp;page=&amp;pgdisp=\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Story Theater&#8221; classes<\/a>\u00a0for Grades 1-3 at Gail Borden&#8217;s South Elgin Branch Library March 27-29,\u00a010:30 \u2013 11:30 am. We&#8217;re going to make stories come alive through storytelling and interactive theater games. It should be a lot of fun!<\/p>\n<p>I keep saying that I&#8217;ll post more and then I don&#8217;t, so I won&#8217;t make any promises! But I do hope it won&#8217;t be as long until my next post. Best wishes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh my, it&#8217;s been too long since I&#8217;ve posted! Which also means I haven&#8217;t been doing very many storytimes lately. \ud83d\ude41 I am currently subbing from time to time at the desk in the Kidspace at Gail Borden Public Library&#8230; where I also volunteer to cover storytime every now and then. I&#8217;m on the lookout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[263,4],"tags":[270],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1052,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sillylibrarian.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}