{"id":1978,"date":"2015-06-21T23:45:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T04:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1978"},"modified":"2015-08-23T17:43:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T22:43:34","slug":"meet-rob-ridinger-an-rt-member-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1978","title":{"rendered":"Meet Rob Ridinger! An RT Member Profile"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Tess Goldwasser<\/em><\/p>\n<p>(Ed. Note: I interviewed Rob? about a year ago? And then forgot to write up a profile! Not because he?s forgettable; he?s certainly not. But because I am a flake. An apologetic flake. Please forgive me Rob!)<\/p>\n<p>Rob is the GLBTRT Liaison to the?Leather Archives and Museum, and a member of the Stonewall Book Award Committee.<\/p>\n<p>He is does reference, collection development, and bibliographic instruction for the social sciences and area studies at Northern Illinois University?s Founder?s Library. He is also an avid amateur astronomer!<\/p>\n<p>Rob is most proud of his service in the Peace Corps as a librarian at an African university for three years, and his writings on LGBT history and the history of the leather community.<\/p>\n<p>His goals are to visit all 7 seven continents, and see the sunrise at Stonehenge.<\/p>\n<p>If Rob were an animal, he says he would be a phoenix, ?because then I would never have to stop learning.?<\/p>\n<p>If he could have a dinner party with five culturally or historically significant figures, living or dead, he would invite Leonard da Vinci, Maya Angelou, Nelson Mandela, Spock of Vulcan, Thor Heyerdahl.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tess Goldwasser (Ed. Note: I interviewed Rob? about a year ago? And then forgot to write up a profile! Not because he?s forgettable; he?s certainly not. But because I am a flake. An apologetic flake. Please forgive me Rob!) Rob is the GLBTRT Liaison to the?Leather Archives and Museum, and a member of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,59,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-people","category-profiles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}