{"id":2751,"date":"2012-06-04T13:18:38","date_gmt":"2012-06-04T18:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:52","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:52","slug":"what-a-good-library-offers-cannot-be-easily-found-elsewhere-aka-the-north-west-london-blues-by-zadie-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2012\/06\/04\/what-a-good-library-offers-cannot-be-easily-found-elsewhere-aka-the-north-west-london-blues-by-zadie-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;[W]hat a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere&#8230;&#8221; (aka The North West London Blues by Zadie Smith)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2012\/jun\/02\/north-west-london-blues\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/willesden-green-library_jpg_470x387_q85.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: An indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/blogs\/nyrblog\/2012\/jun\/02\/north-west-london-blues\/\">The North West London Blues by Zadie Smith | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere, according to Zadie Smith, acclaimed novelist.<\/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],"tags":[150,149,585,630],"class_list":["post-2751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-libraries","tag-library","tag-nyrb","tag-zadiesmith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751","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=2751"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10040,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2751\/revisions\/10040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}