{"id":331,"date":"2014-02-18T15:43:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/rock50\/?p=331"},"modified":"2014-02-18T15:43:08","modified_gmt":"2014-02-18T15:43:08","slug":"david-bickford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/2014\/02\/18\/david-bickford\/","title":{"rendered":"David Bickford (Class of 1987)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-332\" alt=\"20140218davidBickford\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140218davidBickford.jpg\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140218davidBickford.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140218davidBickford-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140218davidBickford-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140218davidBickford-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/02\/20140218davidBickford-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above quote is from David Bickford\u2014Class of 1987. Read the full memory below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My fondest memory of the Rock is the view of the Providence skyline from the south-facing windows. No matter what I was reading or studying, I always found a seat facing south so that I could enjoy a view of the city, both its historic buildings and its modern office towers, whenever my eyes needed a break. Now that I have been a librarian for a quarter century and have become the director of an academic library at another institution, I&#8217;m proud to say I manage a facility with views as impressive as those I saw from the Rock. It took me 25 years to get there, but it&#8217;s inspiring to have the same quality of view that I enjoyed as an undergraduate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above quote is from David Bickford\u2014Class of 1987. Read the full memory below: My fondest memory of the Rock is the view of the Providence skyline from the south-facing windows. No matter what I was reading or studying, I always found a seat facing south so that I could enjoy a view of 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-331","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\/331","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=331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}