{"id":277,"date":"2007-12-30T21:27:42","date_gmt":"2007-12-31T01:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2007\/12\/30\/a-noble-profession\/"},"modified":"2007-12-30T21:27:42","modified_gmt":"2007-12-31T01:27:42","slug":"a-noble-profession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=277","title":{"rendered":"A Noble Profession"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the firestorm and controversy out of which <em>The Higher Power of Lucky <\/em>emerged unscathed, I am more than ever confirmed in my belief that librarianship is a noble profession, essential to free speech and free access for children.\u00c2\u00a0 It is crucial to children&#8217;s ability to make sense of this fragile, battered world &#8212; the world we&#8217;re handing over to them.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m grateful to have spent thirty-five years promoting children&#8217;s books.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s work you can look back on and know you made a difference in people&#8217;s lives, and as cliched as that sounds, I believe it profoundly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Susan Patron, Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech, June 24, 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the firestorm and controversy out of which The Higher Power of Lucky emerged unscathed, I am more than ever confirmed in my belief that librarianship is a noble profession, essential to free speech and free access for children.\u00c2\u00a0 It is crucial to children&#8217;s ability to make sense of this fragile, battered world &#8212; the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-children-and-books","category-librarians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}