{"id":52,"date":"2010-01-02T00:28:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-02T05:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2014-01-01T19:12:37","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T00:12:37","slug":"new-years-resolution-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"New Year&#8217;s Resolution: Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ResolutionLibBks31.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-6957\" alt=\"ResolutionLibBks3\" src=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ResolutionLibBks31.png\" width=\"455\" height=\"354\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ResolutionLibBks31.png 650w, https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ResolutionLibBks31-300x233.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 455px) 100vw, 455px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On my list of things for which I am grateful is the public library, which I consider one of the greatest blessings of modern civilization and which is one of the first things I think of when I pay taxes. I have memories of libraries going back to childhood and recall wandering the stacks in cool semi-darkness, making my selections, then walking home on a hot summer day with a stack of well-worn cloth-bound books, prepared to curl up and enter other realms. Now I see my children with the same passion, choosing the library as a pleasurable destination: &#8220;Can we stop at the LIBRARY?&#8221; A world of wonders open to us all, free of charge. Thank you, Andrew Carnegie! Thank you, dear Library and Librarians everywhere!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my list of things for which I am grateful is the public library, which I consider one of the greatest blessings of modern civilization and which is one of the first things I think of when I pay taxes. I have memories of libraries going back to childhood and recall wandering the stacks in<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/?p=52\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9,8,7,12,6,3],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-illustration","tag-books","tag-celestia","tag-dog","tag-library","tag-resolutions","tag-watercolor"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6958,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/6958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eachdayisacelebration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}