{"id":954,"date":"2014-05-28T16:35:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T21:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=954"},"modified":"2014-12-29T07:49:21","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T13:49:21","slug":"meet-sherry-machones-an-rt-member-profile-by-tess-goldwasser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/954","title":{"rendered":"Meet Sherry Machones!: An RT Member Profile by Tess Goldwasser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>By Tess Goldwasser<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Sherry is the GLBTRT Membership Promotion Committee Chair. She is a Public Library Director in rural Wisconsin. She was chosen as an ALA Emerging Leader in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Sherry is a pansexual, who is married, has a teenage son, and a lot of \u201cfur babies.\u201d Her hobbies include gaming (MMORPGs), reading, acting, and entertaining. Her passion is making the world a better place and changing lives.<\/p>\n<p>Her goal is to be a positive force in this world. Professionally, she would like to apply her love for freedom, equality, and libraries on a national and global scale. She would love to be ALA President.<\/p>\n<p>If she were an animal, she would be a liger (a hybrid of a male lion and a tigress). I\u2019ll let her explain! \u201cI love warm weather and living near water. I feel that I have the personalities of a liger: I am intelligent, independent, extremely loyal, and a natural leader. True to my dual nature, I also am adventurous, energetic, and passionate. I also love that each liger has unique stripes, no one liger is like another. I take pride in my uniqueness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Sherry could have a dinner party with 5 culturally or historically significant figures, living or dead, she would invite Cleopatra, Samuel Beckett, Gore Vidal, Anderson Cooper, and Leonardo Da Vinci.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tess Goldwasser Sherry is the GLBTRT Membership Promotion Committee Chair. She is a Public Library Director in rural Wisconsin. She was chosen as an ALA Emerging Leader in 2012. Sherry is a pansexual, who is married, has a teenage son, and a lot of \u201cfur babies.\u201d Her hobbies include gaming (MMORPGs), reading, acting, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":955,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60,59,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","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\/954","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=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}