{"id":1657,"date":"2010-10-12T09:04:20","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T14:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:11:39","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:11:39","slug":"why-would-you-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/12\/why-would-you-want\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why would you want to read that; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dumb,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-1658\" href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/12\/%e2%80%9cwhy-would-you-want\/pandp_logo\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1658\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pandp_logo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pandp_logo.png 175w, https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/pandp_logo-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carla Cohen, owner of the Politics &amp; Prose Bookstore in Washington DC &#8211; one of my favorite bookstores in the country &#8211; recently passed on.\u00c2\u00a0 Before moving on&#8230;she had the following interaction with one of her customers (this anecdote is from a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politics-prose.com\/carla#\">tribute shared on the Politics &amp; Prose website<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cohen sometimes responded to customers in a less-then-politic way: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why would you want to read that; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dumb,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d she would say to a customer asking for a  book of which she disapproved. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153You would enjoy this a lot more \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a far better book.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that is a bookseller, par excellence: she knew her stuff (books) and her customers.<\/p>\n<p>Farewell Carla, I appreciate all that you have taught me (Adam) from afar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carla Cohen, owner of the Politics &amp; Prose Bookstore in Washington DC &#8211; one of my favorite bookstores in the country &#8211; recently passed on.\u00c2\u00a0 Before moving on&#8230;she had the following interaction with one of her customers (this anecdote is from a tribute shared on the Politics &amp; Prose website): Cohen sometimes responded to customers &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/12\/why-would-you-want\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why would you want to read that; it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dumb,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[45,199,200,201,198],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","category-general","tag-books","tag-bookstores","tag-carlacohen","tag-customers","tag-politicsandprose"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10218,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/10218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}