{"id":6613,"date":"2011-07-30T17:58:45","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T22:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com?p=6613"},"modified":"2011-07-30T23:24:34","modified_gmt":"2011-07-31T04:24:34","slug":"way_to_go_anika_1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/30\/way_to_go_anika_1\/","title":{"rendered":"Way To Go, Anika \/ A Speech for Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe width='400' height='300' frameborder='0' scrolling='no' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0' src='http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/videozone\/embed\/1032535'><\/iframe>\n\n<p>This is a video of 14-year-old Anika Tabovaradan giving an impassioned speech about the need for libraries in Toronto. It is 2 a.m., she hates public speaking, she&#8217;s been waiting for four hours to talk, and a bunch of Toronto officials&#8211;including Mayor Rob Ford&#8211;are watching her. AND SHE IS AWESOME.<\/p>\n\n<p>Way to go, Anika. You reminded me how much I love libraries, librarians, and community space.<\/p>\n\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/torontocouncil\/article\/1032536--video-teen-surprised-by-reaction-to-speech?bn=1\">Here&#8217;s the related article in the Toronto Star<\/a>, and a tip o&#8217; the old hat to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;sqi=2&amp;ved=0CCQQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.romeshh.ca%2F&amp;ei=FX00Ts2LIeuksQK-ytyOCw&amp;usg=AFQjCNHS7GuowfDk8u2DgHHQ7WMYoY42Mg\">Romesh H<\/a>, who pointed out the vid in the first place.)<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a video of 14-year-old Anika Tabovaradan giving an impassioned speech about the need for libraries in Toronto. It is 2 a.m., she hates public speaking, she&#8217;s been waiting for four hours to talk, and a bunch of Toronto &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/30\/way_to_go_anika_1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,56,35,8,2,3,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7003,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6613\/revisions\/7003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sepiamutiny.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}