{"id":24446,"date":"2016-08-13T20:20:41","date_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=24446"},"modified":"2016-08-13T20:20:41","modified_gmt":"2016-08-14T00:20:41","slug":"public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/public-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone can enter\u00a0a public library<br \/>\nthere&#8217;s no fee,\u00a0no ID required<br \/>\nThere are places to sit<br \/>\nand clean restrooms<\/p>\n<p>The stacks are mostly<br \/>\nquiet, especially fiction<br \/>\nW &#8211; Z is good for napping<br \/>\nuntil a page shows up<\/p>\n<p>Even the employees<br \/>\nseem to understand<br \/>\nleave me nodding off<br \/>\nstack the books to shelve later<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s warm in the winter<br \/>\ncool in the summer<br \/>\nsafe and quiet<br \/>\nwith running water<\/p>\n<p>I can remember a time<br \/>\nwhen I used to read<br \/>\nas a child, books about<br \/>\na snowy day, a tree that gave<\/p>\n<p>so much of itself until<br \/>\nit was nothing but a stump<br \/>\nbut still it had\u00a0so much to give<br \/>\na place to rest without\u00a0judgement<\/p>\n<p>[Prompt: Write from the persona of a homeless person]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anyone can enter\u00a0a public library there&#8217;s no fee,\u00a0no ID required There are places to sit and clean restrooms The stacks are mostly quiet, especially fiction W &#8211; Z is good for napping until a page shows up Even the employees seem to understand leave me&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":742,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/742"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24446"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24534,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24446\/revisions\/24534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}