{"id":2118,"date":"2007-07-18T13:01:53","date_gmt":"2007-07-18T18:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=370"},"modified":"2007-07-18T13:01:53","modified_gmt":"2007-07-18T18:01:53","slug":"buddy-is-real","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/buddy-is-real.html","title":{"rendered":"Buddy is Real"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In what has to be one of the most interesting comments without clarification in an interview, &#8220;Gene Ambaum&#8221;, co-creator of the Unshelved comic, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.degreetutor.com\/library\/librarians-online\/gene-ambaum\">states that Buddy the Book Beaver is real<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>How much of him is real?\u00a0 His checkered past?\u00a0 His inability to read?\u00a0 His unrequited love for the children&#8217;s librarian (Tamara)?\u00a0 Or simply the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unshelved.com\/archive.aspx?strip=20020626\">ill-fated original incarnation of Buddy<\/a>?\u00a0 This shocking revelation raises more questions than answers, as he is one of the more colorful characters in the strip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In what has to be one of the most interesting comments without clarification in an interview, &#8220;Gene Ambaum&#8221;, co-creator of the Unshelved comic, states that Buddy the Book Beaver is real. How much of him is real?\u00a0 His checkered past?\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/18\/buddy-is-real.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":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}},"categories":[2938,2943],"tags":[3372,4251],"class_list":["post-2118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-libraries","tag-gene-ambaum","tag-librarian"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-ya","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}