{"id":96,"date":"2012-03-07T12:06:49","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:06:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2012-08-15T02:56:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-15T02:56:08","slug":"paulftompkins-libraries-are-a-good-thing-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/paulftompkins-libraries-are-a-good-thing-to\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/paulftompkins.tumblr.com\/post\/18905637700\/libraries-are-a-good-thing-to-support-i-think-i\">paulftompkins<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Libraries are a good thing to support, I think. I am of the opinion that they may serve to decrease the level of ignorance in the world rather than increase it. We\u2019re probably all set, ignorance-wise. I bet we could afford to go the other way for a while, see how that works. I do wish they had provided an explanation for the melting shoes, though.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/areasofmyexpertise.com\/post\/18903286935\/the-public-library-in-shutesbury-ma-has-made-a\">areasofmyexpertise<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Public Library in Shutesbury, MA has made a movie that made me cry ACTUAL HUMAN TEARS OF HAPPINESS.<\/p>\n<p>Support them, and support your local library.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That is all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Our community is blessed with a pretty amazing library, but not every town is so lucky. Please support the efforts of this wonderful little community as they try to build a new center for independent learning and creativity. This sort of thing should be absolutely encouraged.<\/p>\n<div class=\"attribution\">(<span>Source:<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>paulftompkins: Libraries are a good thing to support, I think. I am of the opinion that they may serve to decrease the level of ignorance in the world rather than increase it. We\u2019re probably all set, ignorance-wise. I bet we could afford to go the other way for a while, see how that works. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[255],"tags":[182,181,178,180,22,179,136],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-literature","tag-education","tag-learning","tag-library","tag-massachusetts","tag-reading","tag-small-town","tag-video","post_format-post-format-video","last-post"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nathanielpayne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}