{"id":2247,"date":"2008-02-22T12:59:59","date_gmt":"2008-02-22T17:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=500"},"modified":"2008-02-22T12:59:59","modified_gmt":"2008-02-22T17:59:59","slug":"abandoned-books-in-detroit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/abandoned-books-in-detroit.html","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned Books in Detroit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those stories that just makes one feel sick to your stomach&#8230; the Detroit Public Schools simply abandoned a book depository sometime in the mid 1980s.\u00a0 Twenty years, several fires, and a great deal of weather exposure has reduced the warehouse of books, flashcards and other school resources to mold, mushrooms, and some sad but fascinating pictures:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sweet-juniper.com\/2007\/11\/it-will-rise-from-ashes.html\">Sweet Juniper blog post<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/sweetjuniper\/2050169064\/in\/set-72157603302647339\/\">Flickr photoset<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisnews.org\/node\/29263\">LISNews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of those stories that just makes one feel sick to your stomach&#8230; the Detroit Public Schools simply abandoned a book depository sometime in the mid 1980s.\u00a0 Twenty years, several fires, and a great deal of weather exposure &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/22\/abandoned-books-in-detroit.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":[2921,2957],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-photography"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Af","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247","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=2247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}