{"id":1223,"date":"2006-05-26T20:35:27","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T20:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1223"},"modified":"2006-05-26T20:35:27","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T20:35:27","slug":"reading_is_fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1223","title":{"rendered":"Reading Is Fundamental"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><DIV>I&nbsp; visited the new <A href=\"http:\/\/www.mpls.lib.mn.us\/newcentrallib.asp\">Minneapolis Public Library<\/A> earlier this week and took some pictures suitable for blog posting.&nbsp; The new library is impressive and a wonderful example of how taxpayer dollars can be used to create a public space that is both useful and beautiful.&nbsp; The ambience is open and inviting, with plenty of windows to fill the interior spaces with natural light.&nbsp; The children&#8217;s area is especially well-designed, with shelves built to kid-height and reading chairs that are built for kids to perch themselves alongside a more grown-up reader.<\/DIV><DIV>&nbsp;<\/DIV><DIV>I&#8217;ll post more observations on the library over the weekend, but stay tuned for the first of the photos.&nbsp; <\/DIV><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&nbsp; visited the new Minneapolis Public Library earlier this week and took some pictures suitable for blog posting.&nbsp; The new library is impressive and a wonderful example of how taxpayer dollars can be used to create a public space that is both useful and beautiful.&nbsp; The ambience is open and inviting, with plenty of windows <a href='https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/?p=1223' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Iwau-jJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the19thfloor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}