{"id":31065,"date":"2012-02-27T16:20:51","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T16:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/npr_athenas_library_the_quirky_pillar_of_providence_rhode_island\/"},"modified":"2012-02-27T16:20:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-27T16:20:51","slug":"npr_athenas_library_the_quirky_pillar_of_providence_rhode_island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31065","title":{"rendered":"(NPR) Athena&#39;s Library, The Quirky Pillar Of Providence, Rhode Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a bit of reverence, librarians carefully wind an antique library clock near the circulation desk in a temple of learning called the Providence Athenaeum.<\/p>\n<p>This is one of the oldest libraries in the United States, a 19th-century library with the soul of a 21st-century rave party. In fact, the Rhode Island institution has been called a national model for civic engagement&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2012\/02\/25\/146814120\/athenas-library-the-quirky-pillar-of-providence\">Read (or better listen to) it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a bit of reverence, librarians carefully wind an antique library clock near the circulation desk in a temple of learning called the Providence Athenaeum. This is one of the oldest libraries in the United States, a 19th-century library with<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=31065\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,130,92,133,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-art","category-books","category-history","category-urbancity-life-and-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}