{"id":15110,"date":"2016-12-21T14:05:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-21T19:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/warm-your-heart-with-this-video-of-drag-queens-reading-to-kids-at-the-brooklyn-public-library\/"},"modified":"2016-12-21T14:05:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T19:05:09","slug":"warm-your-heart-with-this-video-of-drag-queens-reading-to-kids-at-the-brooklyn-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/brooklynbuzz\/warm-your-heart-with-this-video-of-drag-queens-reading-to-kids-at-the-brooklyn-public-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Warm your heart with this video of drag queens reading to kids at the Brooklyn Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> It&#8217;s hard, even in this week before the holidays, to look at the news and the great undulating horror of social media, and feel anything like hope for the upcoming year. We suggest a potent\u00a0antidote to this kind of despair: turning your gaze\u00a0away from the rest of the country and\u00a0direct it inward at New York City, the magical island of misfit humans floating in the red\u00a0sea of America where life goes on at its usual fever pitch. To warm your heart this week, here&#8217;s something relatively mundane happening at the public library that will\u00a0probably\u00a0cause rage spasms in the parts of America where they care about things like which\u00a0bathroom you use: Broadly made a video\u00a0of the Drag Queen Story Hour at the Park Slope branch\u00a0of the Brooklyn Public Library, a monthly event designed to promote the\u00a0&#8220;spirit of unfettered exploration of self that great books can prompt.&#8221; The New Yorker wrote about it&hellip; Read More<\/p>\n<p>Warm your heart with this video of drag queens reading to kids at the Brooklyn Public Library : <a href=\"http:\/\/brokelyn.com\/drag-queen-story-hour-brooklyn\/\">Brokelyn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> It&#8217;s hard, even in this week before the holidays, to look at the news and the great undulatin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5893,"featured_media":15111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2864],"tags":[2729],"class_list":["post-15110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","tag-brokelyn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - 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