{"id":2061,"date":"2012-10-12T01:13:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-12T05:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=2061"},"modified":"2012-10-12T01:13:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-12T05:13:32","slug":"a-classic-takes-on-new-life-the-raven-is-hard-to-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/a-classic-takes-on-new-life-the-raven-is-hard-to-handle\/","title":{"rendered":"A Classic Takes On New Life: &#8220;The Raven&#8221; Is Hard to Handle."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">As October proceeds and Halloween approaches, it&#8217;s the perfect time to pull out the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and that usually means the appearance of what is probably his most famous poem, &#8220;The Raven&#8221;. It&#8217;s not easy trying to convince a bunch of middle schoolers that it&#8217;s worth it to conquer the language of literary classics. Or even adults. Or even librarians. Thank goodness that the Stand-Up Librarian has come to the rescue\u00a0with a rockin&#8217; musical version of Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s &#8220;The Raven&#8221;. Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.standuplibrarian.com\/2012\/10\/the-raven-is-hard-to-handle.html\">here<\/a> to read her confession about reading Poe&#8230; or trying to&#8230; and what a difference the music makes.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gSwsZ8L3S6Y?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As October proceeds and Halloween approaches, it&#8217;s the perfect time to pull out the works of Edgar Allan Poe, and that usually means the appearance of what is probably his most famous poem, &#8220;The Raven&#8221;. It&#8217;s not easy trying to convince a bunch of middle schoolers that it&#8217;s worth it to conquer the language of<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/a-classic-takes-on-new-life-the-raven-is-hard-to-handle\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[969,970,155,974,1224,37,1291],"class_list":["post-2061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-classics","tag-edgar-allan-poe","tag-halloween","tag-horror-classics","tag-poetry","tag-teens","tag-the-raven"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2064,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2061\/revisions\/2064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}