{"id":1921,"date":"2006-12-02T00:02:58","date_gmt":"2006-12-02T05:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=166"},"modified":"2006-12-02T00:02:58","modified_gmt":"2006-12-02T05:02:58","slug":"dewey-the-cat-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/02\/dewey-the-cat-has-died.html","title":{"rendered":"Dewey the Cat has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/spencerlibrary.com\/deweybio.htm\">Dewey Readmore Books<\/a>, the mascot cat for the <a href=\"http:\/\/spencerlibrary.com\/\">Spencer Public Library<\/a> in Iowa, died on November 29th.<\/p>\n<p>Dewey was <a href=\"http:\/\/spencerlibrary.com\/deweypics.htm\">many things<\/a> to many people, and I like the idea of library mascots.\u00a0 We had a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Dempsey_fish\">Jack Dempsey Fish<\/a> in the children&#8217;s section of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brookfieldpubliclibrary.info\/\">public library where I first learned to love libraries<\/a>, and you always counted your fingers after feeding him.<\/p>\n<p>from <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/stories\/O\/OBIT_LIBRARY_CAT?SITE=KYB66&#038;SECTION=HOME&#038;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT\">AP Top Headlines<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dewey Readmore Books, the mascot cat for the Spencer Public Library in Iowa, died on November 29th. Dewey was many things to many people, and I like the idea of library mascots.\u00a0 We had a Jack Dempsey Fish in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2006\/12\/02\/dewey-the-cat-has-died.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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":[2943,2948],"tags":[3224,3225,3226,3227],"class_list":["post-1921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-news","tag-dewey-readmore","tag-iowa","tag-jack-dempsey-fish","tag-spencer-public-library"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-uZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}