{"id":2057,"date":"2007-05-07T21:25:23","date_gmt":"2007-05-08T02:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=301"},"modified":"2007-05-07T21:25:23","modified_gmt":"2007-05-08T02:25:23","slug":"lighthouse-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/lighthouse-library.html","title":{"rendered":"Lighthouse Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer I visited Daytona Beach in Florida.  One of the many interesting places I visited was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponceinlet.org\/\">Ponce de Leon Light Station<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=29.080589,-80.92804&amp;q=29.080589,-80.92804\">Mosquito Inlet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They had an example of one of the &#8220;libraries&#8221; that were used by those who worked in the lighthouse service, which was essentially a wooden box filled with a variety of reading material.  Supply boats would exchange the box for another with different books about every three months.<\/p>\n<p>I thought I&#8217;d share a few of photos:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/lighthouse.png\" title=\"Lighthouse at Mosquito Inlet\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/lighthouse.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"Lighthouse at Mosquito Inlet\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/box.png\" title=\"Library Box\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/box.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"Library Box\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/description.png\" title=\"Lighthouse library description\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/description.thumbnail.png\" alt=\"Lighthouse library description\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer I visited Daytona Beach in Florida. One of the many interesting places I visited was the Ponce de Leon Light Station at Mosquito Inlet. They had an example of one of the &#8220;libraries&#8221; that were used by those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/07\/lighthouse-library.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":[2921,2943,2973],"tags":[3329,3330,3414,3415],"class_list":["post-2057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-libraries","category-travel","tag-daytona-beach","tag-florida","tag-mosquito-inlet","tag-ponce-de-leon-light-station"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-xb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057","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=2057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}