{"id":1060,"date":"2019-05-20T07:15:50","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T14:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/?p=1060"},"modified":"2019-05-20T07:15:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T14:15:50","slug":"homage-to-public-libraries-and-their-custodians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/2019\/05\/20\/homage-to-public-libraries-and-their-custodians\/","title":{"rendered":"Homage to Public Libraries and Their Custodians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1061 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_7405-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_7405-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_7405-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_7405-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/files\/2019\/05\/IMG_7405.jpg 2016w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Whenever I am in a new city, I make a point of visiting its public libraries. I consider public libraries temples of knowledge and sources of perpetual creative inspiration that need to be worshipped, preserved and nurtured with utmost care. I took these pictures of Toronto Reference Library (the biggest) and Yorkville (the historical) walking in Toronto downtown during my across-Canada book tour.<br \/>\nI would like here to acknowledge all those librarians who across the centuries have worked and are still working \u201cbehind the scenes\u201d as silent and trustful guardians of our true and shared richness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I am in a new city, I make a point of visiting its public libraries. I consider public libraries temples of knowledge and sources of perpetual creative inspiration that need to be worshipped, preserved and nurtured with utmost care. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/2019\/05\/20\/homage-to-public-libraries-and-their-custodians\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1060"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1062,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1060\/revisions\/1062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/afrikaner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}