{"id":369,"date":"2013-04-18T14:24:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T14:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2013\/04\/18\/such-gainful-employment-a-poem-by-carlajean-valluzzi\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T21:29:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T21:29:20","slug":"such-gainful-employment-a-poem-by-carlajean-valluzzi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2013\/04\/18\/such-gainful-employment-a-poem-by-carlajean-valluzzi\/","title":{"rendered":"Such Gainful Employment: A Poem by CarlaJean Valluzzi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rXmSa2uBnVk\/UW__WnfUZwI\/AAAAAAAAAOk\/fVDlMEybeFA\/s1600\/READ_carlajean.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-rXmSa2uBnVk\/UW__WnfUZwI\/AAAAAAAAAOk\/fVDlMEybeFA\/s320\/READ_carlajean.jpg\" width=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In honor of National Library and Student Employee Appreciation Week, enjoy a poem written by CarlaJean Valluzzi, Student Assistant, Circulation Department.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span><b>Such Gainful Employment<\/b><br \/>By CarlaJean Valluzzi<\/p>\n<p>I push the cart | weave a path through the stacks | forgetting it there in front of me.<br \/>Maybe it\u2019s the air from some other age |caught between | each thin skin of page,<br \/>preserved | : | proteose colloids, condensed tannins, pastes of wheat and rice;<br \/>it just feels right | tastes sweet to be so fortunate | to spend my days, voluminous<br \/>amongst my favorite strangers | some of whom I\u2019ve laid my eyes upon | near spiritual occasions.<br \/>I read the names as I pass, the call numbers | long for the sun to stay | high a little bit longer<br \/>as though to conjure | such lives as they have | out of nothing but my own mind . . .<br \/>That\u2019s where you can find me | on a Monday, or a Friday | wheeling, shelving; listening quietly.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of National Library and Student Employee Appreciation Week, enjoy a poem written by CarlaJean Valluzzi, Student Assistant, Circulation Department. Such Gainful EmploymentBy CarlaJean Valluzzi I push the cart | weave a path through the stacks | forgetting it <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/2013\/04\/18\/such-gainful-employment-a-poem-by-carlajean-valluzzi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Such Gainful Employment: A Poem by CarlaJean Valluzzi<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[464,188,187,463,1,457],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1247,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/1247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}