{"id":928,"date":"2013-09-10T18:33:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-10T23:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=928"},"modified":"2013-09-10T18:33:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-10T23:33:55","slug":"are-there-no-heroes-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=928","title":{"rendered":"Are There No Heroes Left?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-930\" alt=\"book thief\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/book-thief-218x300.jpg\" width=\"218\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/book-thief-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/book-thief.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/>We were all disappointed to find that <a href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=913\">Oreos are made of lies sandwiched between chocolate wafers<\/a>, of course, but if you were anything like me, you took comfort in the fact that there were at least a few people left in the world who are pure of heart and honest as the day is long.\u00a0 I speak, of course, of the humble librarian, caretaker of the books that we all hold so dear.\u00a0 Well, hang on to your hat, because now there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/local\/lanow\/la-me-ln-13-indicted-textbook-theft-scheme-20130905,0,7322704.story\">revelations of librarians selling their sacred charges, books, for money<\/a>.\u00a0 Books, I say!\u00a0 I wouldn&#8217;t mind a librarian making a little extra money selling, I don&#8217;t know, moonshine or unpasteurized cheese, but this crosses a line.<\/p>\n<p>Also, they run the risk of really screwing up web searches for &#8220;naughty librarians&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were all disappointed to find that Oreos are made of lies sandwiched between chocolate wafers, of course, but if you were anything like me, you took comfort in the fact that there were at least a few people left in the world who are pure of heart and honest as the day is long.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}