{"id":2582,"date":"2008-11-23T23:33:29","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T03:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2582"},"modified":"2008-11-23T23:51:06","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T03:51:06","slug":"dekalb-and-the-changeling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/23\/dekalb-and-the-changeling.html","title":{"rendered":"DeKalb and the Changeling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Always be aware of your local history, and keep an eye on popular culture.\u00a0 My former stomping ground of DeKalb, Illinois played a pivotal part in the real-life tragedy that inspired the recently-released movie &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0824747\/\">Changeling<\/a>&#8220;.\u00a0 Kudos to historian Phyllis Kelley (full disclosure:\u00a0 I worked with her daughter, Librarian Patsy Lundberg) for being a key member of the group which built the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dekalbcounty.org\/JHR\/joiner.html\">Joiner History Room<\/a> collection that allows for such gems to be unearthed.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daily-chronicle.com\/articles\/2008\/11\/12\/features\/people\/doc491a21730259b015362266.txt\">DeKalb Daily Chronicle<\/a> has the story, as does the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/chi-dekalb-changeling_23_bdnov23,0,5094985,print.story\">Chicago Tribune<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to Patsy for the heads-up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Always be aware of your local history, and keep an eye on popular culture.\u00a0 My former stomping ground of DeKalb, Illinois played a pivotal part in the real-life tragedy that inspired the recently-released movie &#8220;Changeling&#8220;.\u00a0 Kudos to historian Phyllis Kelley &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/11\/23\/dekalb-and-the-changeling.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":[1],"tags":[4202,3532,4203,4761,3149,4251,4205,4204,4760],"class_list":["post-2582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-changeling","tag-chicago-tribune","tag-daily-chronicle","tag-historian","tag-illinois","tag-librarian","tag-patsy-lundberg","tag-phyllis-kelley","tag-the-chicago-tribune"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-FE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}