{"id":2253,"date":"2010-01-22T12:05:42","date_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/01\/dere-aint-no-gunslinger-books-in-texas\/"},"modified":"2010-01-22T12:05:42","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T19:05:42","slug":"dere-aint-no-gunslinger-books-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/01\/22\/dere-aint-no-gunslinger-books-in-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;dere ain&#8217;t no gunslinger books in Texas&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/LIVING\/01\/22\/laredo.books\/index.html?hpt=T2\" target=\"_blank\">from CNN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/LIVING\/01\/22\/laredo.books\/index.html?hpt=T2\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 30px; font-style: normal; line-height: 37px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Big city left with no bookstore<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 15px\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">By\u00a0<strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Ed Lavandera<\/strong>, CNN<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/LIVING\/01\/22\/laredo.books\/story.petition.cnn.jpg\" align=\"right\" height=\"135\" width=\"240\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><strong style=\"padding: 0px; margin: 0px\">Laredo, Texas (CNN)<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The bookstore was Zhuara Rivera&#8217;s magical &#8220;Neverland.&#8221; It offered a fairy tale world for 14-year-old Rivera to get lost in stories and words.<\/p>\n<p>But the books are gone. On January 16, Barnes &amp; Noble, which owns B. Dalton, closed the store inside Laredo&#8217;s Mall del Norte.<\/p>\n<p>That leaves Laredo, Texas, population of 250,000, one of the largest cities in the United States without a bookstore.<\/p>\n<p>The closest bookstore is now 150 miles away, in San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2010\/LIVING\/01\/22\/laredo.books\/index.html?hpt=T2\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at CNN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from CNN Big city left with no bookstore By\u00a0Ed Lavandera, CNN Laredo, Texas (CNN)\u00a0&#8212; The bookstore was Zhuara Rivera&#8217;s magical &#8220;Neverland.&#8221; It offered a fairy tale world for 14-year-old Rivera to get lost in stories and words. But the books are gone. On January 16, Barnes &amp; Noble, which owns B. Dalton, closed the store [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}