{"id":3016,"date":"2011-06-14T09:52:28","date_gmt":"2011-06-14T16:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/06\/isaac-asimov-on-libraries\/"},"modified":"2011-06-16T09:59:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-16T16:59:44","slug":"isaac-asimov-on-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/14\/isaac-asimov-on-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Asimov on Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelf-awareness.com\/issue.html?issue=1482\" target=\"_blank\">from Shelf Awareness<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shelf-awareness.com\/files\/1\/shelf-awareness\/411\/pa\/SA%20content%202011\/Isaac%20Asimov%20061011.jpeg\" height=\"216\" width=\"162\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; max-width: 480px !important; float: left; margin-top: 3px; margin-bottom: 3px; margin-left: 7px; margin-right: 7px; border-width: 0px\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 17px; font-size: 17px; color: #887034\" class=\"Apple-style-span\">Quotation of the Day<\/span><\/p>\n<h4 style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font-weight: bold; padding-top: 5px; color: #333333; line-height: 1em; font-size: 15px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif\" class=\"default-color\" id=\"m12498\"><strong>Forty-Year-Old Wisdom About Libraries<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>&#8220;[A library] isn&#8217;t just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any human being, a friend that will amuse you and console you&#8211;and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Isaac Asimov in a March 16, 1971, letter to children at the newly opened Troy, Mich., public library, as posted on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2011\/05\/library-is-many-things.html\" style=\"color: #117a97\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"http:\/\/www.lettersofnote.com\/2011\/05\/library-is-many-things.html\">lettersofnote.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shelf-awareness.com\/issue.html?issue=1482\" target=\"_blank\">click to read at Shelf-Awareness.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Shelf Awareness Quotation of the Day Forty-Year-Old Wisdom About Libraries &#8220;[A library] isn&#8217;t just a library. It is a space ship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the Universe, a time machine that will take you to the far past and the far future, a teacher that knows more than any [&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-3016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016","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=3016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}