{"id":11574,"date":"2013-03-08T11:28:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T17:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=11574"},"modified":"2013-03-08T12:36:24","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T18:36:24","slug":"friday-fun-are-you-ready-to-rumble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/11574","title":{"rendered":"Friday Fun: Are You Ready to RUMBLE?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s all sorts of stereotypes about librarians. You&#8217;ve got the glasses, hair in bun, nose in book at all times, quiet and meek nature &#8211; you all know them. That&#8217;s pretty much how we&#8217;re portrayed in popular culture. Occasionally we get to be the <a href=http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/08\/16\/librarians-save-the-day-1_n_672494.html#s123468&#038;title=The_Music_Man\">star that saves the day<\/a>, but we&#8217;re usually the ones shushing loud patrons in the background.<\/p>\n<p>And then there&#8217;s the real world of librarians, in which they break the mold and defy those stereotypes. Enter Michael Korklan, a librarian at Metropolitan Community College-Penn Valley in Kansas City, MO. On the surface, you wouldn&#8217;t assume that the reference librarian would be anything but nice and innocent&#8230; until you find out that he&#8217;s also Rock &#8216;n Roll Mike Sydal, a Metro Pro wrestler. That&#8217;s right &#8211; the guy leads two completely different lives. How cool is that? It makes me want to find out how to get in on the gig.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full story: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/inkkc.com\/content\/his-title-isnt-on-the-library-shelf\/\">Mild-mannered librarian moonlights as wrestler Rock n&#8217; Roll Mike Sydal<\/a><\/strong> [Ink Magazine]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s all sorts of stereotypes about librarians. You&#8217;ve got the glasses, hair in bun, nose in book at all times, quiet and meek nature &#8211; you all know them. That&#8217;s pretty much how we&#8217;re portrayed in popular culture. Occasionally we &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/11574\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11574"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11600,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11574\/revisions\/11600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}