{"id":658,"date":"2008-02-19T06:00:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/19\/using-your-superpower-for-good\/"},"modified":"2008-02-18T21:40:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T02:40:43","slug":"using-your-superpower-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/02\/19\/using-your-superpower-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Your Superpower For Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow bring us this bit of goodness &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/02\/18\/library-waives-fees.html\">librarians waiving fees in exchange for Dance Dance Revolution pla<\/a>y.  While I&#8217;ve got a conflicted relationship with librarians*, I think this is fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>*No, really.  Just a few years ago, I was almost forced to deal a mortal blow to a Library of Congress librarian who thought he had to defend the stacks against a dear friend of mine.  Because she couldn&#8217;t immediately articulate the exact focus of her research.  Sonofabitch!  But then I remember the librarian who declined to turn my 2nd grade self into my (working in the same school) mother, even though he&#8217;d caught me entering terribly obscene answers into the library&#8217;s &#8220;What Is This?&#8221; photo contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow bring us this bit of goodness &#8211; librarians waiving fees in exchange for Dance Dance Revolution play. While I&#8217;ve got a conflicted relationship with librarians*, I think this is fantastic. *No, really. Just a few years ago, I was almost forced to deal a mortal blow to a Library of Congress librarian who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-content-distribution","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}