{"id":2465,"date":"2009-12-10T04:45:53","date_gmt":"2009-12-10T09:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=2465"},"modified":"2009-12-10T04:45:53","modified_gmt":"2009-12-10T09:45:53","slug":"repostdespite-ray-bradburys-efforts-a-california-library-closes-nytimes-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/10\/repostdespite-ray-bradburys-efforts-a-california-library-closes-nytimes-com\/","title":{"rendered":"rePost::Despite Ray Bradbury\u2019s Efforts, A California Library Closes &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cLibraries raised me. I don\u2019t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries, because most students don\u2019t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn\u2019t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.\u201d<br \/>\nvia <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/12\/09\/us\/09library.html?_r=2&amp;hpw\">Despite Ray Bradbury\u2019s Efforts, A California Library Closes &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>AS long as laptops and ebook reader and other ways to consume books\/information are not free or near free government has to step in and fill the gap. We must reform education in such a way as to accommodate people who learn outside of the school system.\u00a0 I wonder where they are going to send those books? maybe they could donate it to Philippine Municipal Libraries, just a thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLibraries raised me. I don\u2019t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries, because most students don\u2019t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn\u2019t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.\u201d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/10\/repostdespite-ray-bradburys-efforts-a-california-library-closes-nytimes-com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;rePost::Despite Ray Bradbury\u2019s Efforts, A California Library Closes &#8211; NYTimes.com&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}