{"id":444,"date":"2018-11-08T21:17:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T21:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/?p=444"},"modified":"2019-01-29T15:59:30","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T15:59:30","slug":"check-please-hockey-vol-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/2018\/11\/08\/check-please-hockey-vol-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Check, Please! #Hockey, Vol. 1 by Ngozi Ukazu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-445 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/check-please-214x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/check-please-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/50\/2018\/11\/check-please.jpg 356w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>Bitty is an exceedingly charming vlogger, former junior figure skating champion, baker, and hockey player; he is also a student at Samwell University. In this graphic novel, Bitty takes us through the highs and lows of being a student athlete on a competitive hockey team as well as his growing attraction to the temperamental but very good-looking captain, Jack.<\/p>\n<p>This book came to be after a very successful Kickstarter campaign for Ngozi Ukazu\u2019s popular webcomic series of the same name. This coming-of-age story perfectly captures the joy of college and friendship with the complications of second-guessing oneself on a consistent basis. The artwork is simple, colorful, and seamlessly flows from page to page. Easily read in on sitting, this is a book you\u2019ll gobble up and want more of as soon as possible!<\/p>\n<p>Call #\u00a0GN Uk1ch<\/p>\n<p><em>Review by Vicki<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitty is an exceedingly charming vlogger, former junior figure skating champion, baker, and hockey player; he is also a student at Samwell University. In this graphic novel, Bitty takes us through the highs and lows of being a student athlete on a competitive hockey team as well as his growing attraction to the temperamental but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,17,18],"class_list":["post-444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-graphic-novel","tag-lgbtqia","tag-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/uni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}