{"id":34374,"date":"2025-09-23T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=34374"},"modified":"2025-09-23T10:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T15:08:11","slug":"tell-me-you-havent-been-in-a-library-recently-without-using-those-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/23\/tell-me-you-havent-been-in-a-library-recently-without-using-those-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Tell Me You Haven&#8217;t Been In A Library Recently Without Using Those Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Gioia laments the loss of American arts, including jazz music, opera, books, and whatnot from the middle part of the century (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.honest-broker.com\/p\/is-mid-20th-century-american-culture\" target=\"_new\">Is Mid-20th Century American Culture Getting Erased?<\/a>), but he says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When you walk into a library, you understand immediately that it took centuries to create all these books.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clearly, he has not been into a local library recently.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose university libraries still have old books in them&#8211;depending upon how old the university libraries are themselves&#8211;but I am pretty sure I have long lamented how few books are in the local library branches here and how many of them are skewed toward contemporary books&#8211;and how you would have to order the classics via inter-library loan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ted Gioia laments the loss of American arts, including jazz music, opera, books, and whatnot from the middle part of the century (Is Mid-20th Century American Culture Getting Erased?), but he says: When you walk into a library, you understand immediately that it took centuries to create all these books. Clearly, he has not been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34375,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34374\/revisions\/34375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}