{"id":479,"date":"2025-11-07T17:12:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T17:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/?p=479"},"modified":"2025-11-10T15:09:54","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T15:09:54","slug":"november-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"November News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><span class=\"level3\">Halloween was a blast! I enjoyed seeing everyone in their costumes. My niece Amelia dressed as Rumi from K-Pop Demon Hunters!<\/p>\n<p>Looking toward November, and the rest of the year, it&#8217;s hard to believe I started in June. I feel like I&#8217;m hitting my stride, which is made easier by patrons who are patient when I make mistakes, who show up when we try new things, who tell their friends and family that the library is a nice place to be.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"level3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"level3\">In this season of appreciation, I do want you to know I have noticed and I appreciate the warm reception I&#8217;ve gotten stepping into this role. It&#8217;s given me the ability to spend more time with my family and work more closely with the community I call home. While I consider myself an articulate individual, and indeed in the trade of words, I find myself short of them trying to express what it means to step into the unknown and land in safety.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"level3\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"level3\">I hope 2026 will bring more consistency on my end. I know anyone reading this can relate to figuring out how to juggle the many plates life demands us to spin. My husband Dakota always reminds me that failing is a good indication that you&#8217;re trying your\u00a0best, and it&#8217;s merely a step in the process instead of a consequence for doing something wrong. I believe in learning through imagination&#8211; through art, music, stories; and I dearly appreciate the opportunity to thrive in an environment built on just that.<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span class=\"level3\">\u00a0<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-480\" src=\"http:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Screenshot_20251106-145817.Chrome-233x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" \/><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween was a blast! I enjoyed seeing everyone in their costumes. My niece Amelia dressed as Rumi from K-Pop Demon Hunters! Looking toward November, and the rest of the year, it&#8217;s hard to believe I started in June. I feel like I&#8217;m hitting my stride, which is made easier by patrons who are patient when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8,15],"tags":[20,19,17,18,14],"class_list":["post-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-library","category-notes-from-the-director","tag-directors-notes","tag-library-news","tag-literacy","tag-news","tag-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":481,"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions\/481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eurekapubliclibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}