{"id":2528,"date":"2005-03-04T13:42:01","date_gmt":"2005-03-04T18:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2528"},"modified":"2022-10-09T16:06:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T20:06:03","slug":"library-nostalgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2528","title":{"rendered":"Library Nostalgia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spurred on by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2526\">this post<\/a>, Lisa has a beautiful post up right now about <a href=\"http:\/\/thislife.typepad.com\/this_life\/2005\/03\/reading_is_fund.html\">her childhood local library<\/a>.  I have beautiful memories of my time in the library as a little kid, too &#8211; and my parents still live right down the street from the joint.  It has certainly changed a bit since back then (computers, etc.).  My first job was as a page at that library.  Potent memories, indeed.  I remember not being able to see over the counter, as I put my stack of books up for Phyllis (the children&#8217;s librarian) to check out.  I loved the sound of her stamping the date on the card in the back.  And the children&#8217;s book room was a haven of the imagination.  It still hasn&#8217;t changed all that much, actually &#8211; which makes me glad. I hate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spurred on by this post, Lisa has a beautiful post up right now about her childhood local library. I have beautiful memories of my time in the library as a little kid, too &#8211; and my parents still live right &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=2528\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178293,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions\/178293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}