{"id":722,"date":"2014-04-04T18:47:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/rock50\/?p=722"},"modified":"2014-04-04T18:47:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T18:47:01","slug":"paul-richard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/2014\/04\/04\/paul-richard\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Richard\u00a0(Class of 1972)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-700\" alt=\"20140404rm14\" src=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/41\/2014\/04\/20140404rm03.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"563\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The above quote is from Paul Richard\u00a0(Class of 1972). Read the full memory below:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My favorite memory of the Rock occurred during the year following my graduation when I worked full-time in the Circulation Department. During my assigned turn at the circulation desk, a frazzled graduate student rushed from the card catalog, and tossed a card onto the desk, demanding to know the location of the book she was desperately seeking. As it happened, I recognized the book as one I had shelved a few hours earlier. Assuming my best Great Karnak demeanor, I held the card to my forehead, and intoned, &#8220;this book can be found on the 4th floor, stack XYZ, 7 shelves from the beginning of the stack, 5th shelf from the top, 12th book from the left.&#8221; The student left in a huff, convinced that I was fobbing her off with deliberate misinformation. A few minutes later she returned to the checkout desk, book in hand. &#8220;How did you know exactly where it was?&#8221; she asked. Without missing a beat, I replied, &#8220;We&#8217;re a full service library &#8211; anything we can do to please our customers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The above quote is from Paul Richard\u00a0(Class of 1972). Read the full memory below: My favorite memory of the Rock occurred during the year following my graduation when I worked full-time in the Circulation Department. During my assigned turn at the circulation desk, a frazzled graduate student rushed from the card catalog, and tossed a [&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-722","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\/722","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=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/rock50\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}