{"id":12418,"date":"2024-02-08T12:39:41","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T18:39:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/?p=12418"},"modified":"2024-02-08T12:39:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T18:39:41","slug":"blind-date-with-a-book-is-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2024\/02\/08\/blind-date-with-a-book-is-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Date with a Book is Back!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Nile Arena and Grace Spiewak<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Looking for a fun book to help pass the Chicago winter woes? Blind Date with a Book in the John T. Richardson Library is your chance to \u201cmeet cute\u201d with your next literary passion!<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s Blind Date with a Book event will take place on Wednesday February 14, 11 a.m. &#8211; 2 p.m. on the first floor of the JTR Library. Each book has a brief \u2018dating profile\u2019 for you to browse and comes with a free library tote bag, swag, and a sweet treat inside! Library staff will be available to check out books, and you can simply return the book to either the JTR or Loop Library when you\u2019re finished.<\/p>\n<p>We will also have Valentine\u2019s cards and supplies available all week on the first floor of the John T. Richardson Library, so stop by and make a card for someone special!<\/p>\n<p>If you post a picture of you and your \u2018date\u2019 on social media, be sure to tag us @depaul_library on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Valentine\u2019s Day from everyone at the Library!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12419\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12419\" style=\"width: 411px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/img004-2.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12419\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/img004-2.jpg?resize=411%2C495&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"411\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/img004-2.jpg?w=829&amp;ssl=1 829w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/img004-2.jpg?resize=249%2C300&amp;ssl=1 249w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/img004-2.jpg?resize=768%2C925&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12419\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image from Crap Hound zine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Nile Arena and Grace Spiewak Looking for a fun book to help pass the Chicago winter woes? Blind Date with a Book in the John T. Richardson Library is your chance to \u201cmeet cute\u201d with your next literary passion! This year\u2019s Blind Date with a Book event will take place on Wednesday February 14, <\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/2024\/02\/08\/blind-date-with-a-book-is-back\/\" class=\"read-more\">continue reading<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":85,"featured_media":12419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8GMS7-3ei","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/02\/img004-2.jpg?fit=829%2C999&ssl=1&wsr","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/85"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12418"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12425,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12418\/revisions\/12425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.library.depaul.press\/full-text\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}