{"id":1517,"date":"2004-08-10T10:24:06","date_gmt":"2004-08-10T14:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/nateptest\/2004\/08\/10\/kurt-vonnegut-on-librarians\/"},"modified":"2004-08-10T10:24:06","modified_gmt":"2004-08-10T14:24:06","slug":"kurt-vonnegut-on-librarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/2004\/08\/10\/kurt-vonnegut-on-librarians\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurt Vonnegut on librarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a492'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthesetimes.com\/site\/main\/article\/i_love_you_madame_librarian\/\">Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s article here<\/a> includes a small paean to librarians.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate<br \/>\nlibrarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful<br \/>\npolitical connections or their great wealth, who, all over this<br \/>\ncountry, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried<br \/>\nto remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal<br \/>\nto thought police the names of persons who have checked out those<br \/>\ntitles. <\/p>\n<p>So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or<br \/>\nthe Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the<br \/>\nmedia. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public<br \/>\nlibraries. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>From the <a href=\"www.librarian.net\">librarian<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt Vonnegut&#8217;s article here includes a small paean to librarians. And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":709,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ontheweb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5G3PH-ot","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/709"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/natep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}