{"id":989,"date":"2010-08-16T06:46:36","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T03:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=989"},"modified":"2010-08-16T06:46:36","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T03:46:36","slug":"bookish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/16\/bookish\/","title":{"rendered":"Bookish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now that&#8217;s what I call a library!  Fit to hide a copy of <em>The Necronomicon<\/em> in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/library.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/library.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"library\" width=\"406\" height=\"403\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-990\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7364897@N02\/2833209278\/\">Picture on Flickr<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cincinnatipubliclibrary\/sets\/72157615301402415\/\">Set on Flickr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A useful reminder of how magnificent a public library could be in Lovecraft&#8217;s youth.  Are there similar pictures of the interior of the public libraries in Providence during the early years of the 20th century?<\/p>\n<p>The current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnatilibrary.org\/\">Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County<\/a> website has a deeply buried <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnatilibrary.org\/main\/building.asp\">about the building<\/a> page with another picture of the interior.  The guilty local worthies who decided to do away with this magnificent library are not named.  Interesting how such cultural\/architectural vandals always seem to be able to slip unnoticed out of city histories.  But you might find the answer in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cincinnatilibrary.org\/freepublic\/\">the official book on the library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/library2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/library2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"library2\" width=\"406\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-991\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/library3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/library3.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"library3\" width=\"406\" height=\"395\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-992\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that&#8217;s what I call a library! Fit to hide a copy of The Necronomicon in&#8230; Picture on Flickr | &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2010\/08\/16\/bookish\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}