{"id":304,"date":"2022-11-18T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/18\/library-long-term-relationship\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T18:45:00","slug":"library-long-term-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/18\/library-long-term-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"The Library and Me. A Long-Term Relationship."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The library knows me by name, which is both flattering and a little exposing. I check out cookbooks, finance texts, travel memoirs, and the occasional novel I pretend is for book club even when book club is just me and Biscuit.<\/p>\n<p>As a teacher I lived in the stacks. As an analyst-in-training I live there again, except now I also borrow audiobooks for trail walks. Multitasking, darling, not madness.<\/p>\n<p>I once kept a book eleven weeks and paid a fine that still haunts me in dreams. Character building. Now I set phone reminders like the responsible eccentric I am becoming.<\/p>\n<p>Support your library. It is the original streaming service with better ethics and nicer chairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I return most books on time now. Growth is real and overdue fees are not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-road-parks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmarlington.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}