{"id":1988,"date":"2009-09-01T11:10:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T18:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2009\/09\/megabeth-the-roller-derby-reference-librarian\/"},"modified":"2009-09-01T11:10:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T18:10:22","slug":"megabeth-the-roller-derby-reference-librarian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2009\/09\/01\/megabeth-the-roller-derby-reference-librarian\/","title":{"rendered":"MegaBeth &#8211; The Roller Derby Reference Librarian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/LIVING\/08\/31\/roller.derby.librarian\/#cnnSTCText\" target=\"_blank\">from CNN.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Tiny librarian is hell on wheels<\/h1>\n<p>By Jim Kavanagh<br \/>\nCNN<\/p>\n<p><strong>(CNN)<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; She&#8217;s petite, she&#8217;s middle-aged, she&#8217;s bookish, and if she gets a chance, she&#8217;ll knock you on your keister.<\/p>\n<p><center><script src=\"http:\/\/i.cdn.turner.com\/cnn\/.element\/js\/2.0\/video\/evp\/module.js?loc=int&#038;vid=\/video\/living\/2009\/08\/28\/roller.derby.librarian.cnn\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><noscript>Embedded video from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\">CNN Video<\/a><\/noscript><\/CENTER><\/p>\n<p>By day, she&#8217;s Beth Hollis, a 53-year-old reference librarian in Akron, Ohio. By night, she&#8217;s MegaBeth, an ageless dynamo on the roller derby rink.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All my life, when I tell people I&#8217;m a librarian, they say, &#8216;You don&#8217;t look like a librarian,&#8217; &#8221; Hollis said. &#8220;And now that I&#8217;m a roller derby girl, they say, &#8216;You don&#8217;t look like a roller derby girl, either.&#8217; So I don&#8217;t know where I fit in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hollis has been fitting in at the Akron-Summit County Library for 27 years.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8217;s my hero,&#8221; said Diane Barton, 48, who has worked with Hollis at the library for 18 years. &#8220;I just think it&#8217;s so cool she&#8217;s doing something so different and so active and so aggressive. You know how we are. We&#8217;re librarians, so we tend to have that meek and mild stereotype.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2009\/LIVING\/08\/31\/roller.derby.librarian\/#cnnSTCText\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at CNN.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN.com Tiny librarian is hell on wheels By Jim Kavanagh CNN (CNN)\u00a0&#8212; She&#8217;s petite, she&#8217;s middle-aged, she&#8217;s bookish, and if she gets a chance, she&#8217;ll knock you on your keister. Embedded video from CNN Video By day, she&#8217;s Beth Hollis, a 53-year-old reference librarian in Akron, Ohio. By night, she&#8217;s MegaBeth, an ageless dynamo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}