{"id":514,"date":"2016-12-17T01:07:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T05:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=514"},"modified":"2016-12-17T01:07:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-17T05:07:59","slug":"146-capitol-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"146. Capitol Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know well that the group of people who are passionate about discussing new children&#8217;s books make up a tiny percentage of the population.  I&#8217;ve found them in other book bloggers.  I&#8217;ve found them in people who comment on the Heavy Medal mock-Newbery blog and other School Library Journal blogs.  I&#8217;ve found them among other ALSC members.<\/p>\n<p>But how lucky am I to live where I can meet and talk with such people in person!  Capitol Choices is a DC-area based group that chooses 100 of the best children&#8217;s and young adult books of the year each year.  We meet monthly to discuss the books.  Participants are mostly librarians and other children&#8217;s book professionals.  The discussion uses the same rules (mention strengths of the books first, then observations, then concerns) as ALSC committees.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s kind of wild to be around a roomful of like-minded people and get to talk about great books with people who know what they&#8217;re talking about and care as much as I do.  Lovely!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know well that the group of people who are passionate about discussing new children&#8217;s books make up a tiny percentage of the population. I&#8217;ve found them in other book bloggers. I&#8217;ve found them in people who comment on the Heavy Medal mock-Newbery blog and other School Library Journal blogs. I&#8217;ve found them among other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,11,5,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderblessings\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}