{"id":26420,"date":"2002-08-15T13:21:42","date_gmt":"2002-08-15T18:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/08\/15\/new-american-library-association-posters\/"},"modified":"2002-08-15T13:21:42","modified_gmt":"2002-08-15T18:21:42","slug":"new-american-library-association-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/2002\/08\/15\/26420-new-american-library-association-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"New American Library Association Posters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\">Last year, the American Library Association used The Lord of the Rings for their teen read week with the theme &#8220;Make Reading a Hobbit&#8221; and nice posters and bookmarks with both Frodo and Arwen holding books and actually reading. A short time later, a new set comes out to include Gandalf, who was holding an absolutely huge volume and encouraging those kids to pick up a book and read.  But this summer it looks as though ALA has changed tactics with a new poster featuring the nine Ring Wraiths fleeing from the flood-waters called up by Arwen at the Ford. Wowsers! Are they trying to tell us that if we don&#8217;t read, the Ring Wraiths will get us?  Maybe insinuating that the Ring Wraiths are all wet for not spending quality time at their local library? You decide&#8211; go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alastore.ala.org\/\" target=new>ALA<\/a>  then go to the fantasy\/science fiction collection.<\/p>\n<p>Actually, many local public libraries carry videos and DVDs now, right along with the print materials they&#8217;ve always carried. So this poster isn&#8217;t inappropriate but struck me as funny. It&#8217;s also intersting that Darth Vadar is the only other &#8216;evil&#8217; charactor to earn a poster at ALA at this time.&#8221; Thanks to Asarina for that. <\/p>\n<p>[Well, I can only wonder what would happen if we encouraged teenagers to think that reading was rebellious and bad&#8230;.Tehanu]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, the American Library Association used The Lord of the Rings for their teen read week with&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_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":[138],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-old-special-reports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1tLoH-6S8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theonering.net\/torwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}