{"id":1008,"date":"2014-05-08T19:01:39","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T19:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/rock50\/?p=1008"},"modified":"2014-05-08T19:01:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T19:01:39","slug":"ivo-mijnssen-class-of-2005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/2014\/05\/08\/ivo-mijnssen-class-of-2005\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivo Mijnssen (Class of 2005)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-960\" alt=\"rockMemories20\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/05\/rockMemories20.jpg\" width=\"100%\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above quote is from Ivo Mijnssen\u00a0(Class of 2005). Read the full memory below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Not only the availability of books determines the quality of a library but also the availability of comfortable chairs. Especially if you have to read eight-hundred-page-books for history classes or spend days writing research papers, a comfortable chair is essential. The Rock always had the best chairs, but you had to be there early: the most adjustable, most modern and most comfortable chairs in the reading rooms were in high demand.\u00a0Anyway, I always loved those chairs. And as I would spend weeks working on uncomfortable chairs in Russian archives and libraries during my PhD research phase later on, I really learned to appreciate the privilege of doing my undergraduate research at the Rock.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above quote is from Ivo Mijnssen\u00a0(Class of 2005). Read the full memory below: Not only the availability of books determines the quality of a library but also the availability of comfortable chairs. Especially if you have to read eight-hundred-page-books for history classes or spend days writing research papers, a comfortable chair is essential. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rock-memories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}