{"id":3142,"date":"2011-09-18T12:36:19","date_gmt":"2011-09-18T19:36:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/09\/today-is-the-end-borders-gone\/"},"modified":"2011-09-19T12:40:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-19T19:40:47","slug":"today-is-the-end-borders-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/09\/18\/today-is-the-end-borders-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Today Is The End &#8211; Borders Gone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/heartbreaking-borders-photograph_b38202\" target=\"_blank\">from MediaBistro&#8217;s GalleyCat<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Heartbreaking Borders Photograph<\/h1>\n<p style=\"margin-top: -4px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 10px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; color: #999999; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: hidden; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px\" class=\"byline\">By Jason Boog on September 14, 2011 2:23 PM<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/files\/2011\/09\/7Vaiq.jpg\" style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" height=\"640\" width=\"481\" title=\"7Vaiq\" class=\"size-full wp-image-38207\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Reddit user\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/jessers25\" target=\"_blank\">Jessers25<\/a>\u00a0took the photo embedded above at a Borders going out of business sale. In\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/7Vaiq.jpg\">the photo<\/a>, a\u00a0<strong>Thomas Jefferson<\/strong>\u00a0quote sat on a bare wall with a pile of dismantled bookshelves: \u201cI cannot live without books.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The photo has spawned\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/books\/comments\/keo72\/i_caught_this_sad_irony_in_borders_on_their_last\/\" target=\"_blank\">hundreds of comments<\/a>\u00a0and a raging debate about the future of bookstores.<\/p>\n<p>No matter what you think about mega-bookstores or Borders management, this is a sad year for everyone who loves books.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/galleycat\/heartbreaking-borders-photograph_b38202\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at MediaBistro<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from MediaBistro&#8217;s GalleyCat Heartbreaking Borders Photograph By Jason Boog on September 14, 2011 2:23 PM Reddit user\u00a0Jessers25\u00a0took the photo embedded above at a Borders going out of business sale. In\u00a0the photo, a\u00a0Thomas Jefferson\u00a0quote sat on a bare wall with a pile of dismantled bookshelves: \u201cI cannot live without books.\u201d The photo has spawned\u00a0hundreds of comments\u00a0and [&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-3142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142","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=3142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}