{"id":1911,"date":"2023-04-07T18:17:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T22:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/?p=1911"},"modified":"2023-04-07T18:18:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T22:18:50","slug":"honors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/honors\/","title":{"rendered":"Honors"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To be honest, I&#8217;m not really very comfortable tooting my own horn [this is where Jim would insert a giggle-ridden joke about &#8220;tooting&#8221;], but since I&#8217;ve just finished the last formal education that I plan to pursue, I figure I might as well do a little tooting [insert more giggling].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I got an email this week telling me that the faculty of SLIS have voted to invite me &#8220;to join Beta Phi Mu, the International Honor Society for Library and Information Science.&#8221;  The email goes on to state that &#8220;only 35% of students with a grade point average of 3.75 or higher, and who showed promise in leadership and service, were considered for membership.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Woo-hoo!  Even at the ripe old age of whatever I am, I still show promise!   I&#8217;m not being flippant here &#8211; I&#8217;m seriously delighted to be thought of as promising, as having a future and having future impact on the world.  And I definitely feel energized now that I&#8217;m done with school, and I&#8217;m excited about all the projects I&#8217;m cooking up for my professional role.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And I&#8217;m seriously delighted to receive the honor of being invited to join Beta Phi Mu.  A huge thank you to the faculty of SLIS for the invitation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To be honest, I&#8217;m not really very comfortable tooting my own horn [this is where Jim would insert a giggle-ridden joke about &#8220;tooting&#8221;], but since I&#8217;ve just finished the last formal education that I plan to pursue, I figure I might as well do a little tooting [insert more giggling]. I got an email this &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/honors\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Honors<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graduate-school","category-librarianship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1911"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1911\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/abbykingsbury.org\/books\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}