{"id":35,"date":"2005-01-03T15:05:38","date_gmt":"2005-01-03T15:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2005-01-03T15:05:38","modified_gmt":"2005-01-03T15:05:38","slug":"closing_down_salinas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2005\/01\/03\/closing_down_salinas\/","title":{"rendered":"closing down salinas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"SLibrary.jpg\" src=\"\/blog\/archives\/SLibrary.jpg\" width=\"135\" height=\"79\" align=\"right\"\/> The 150,000 citizens of Salinas, California will soon be <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A41526-2005Jan1.html\">without a single public library<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; a drastic measure taken by the city to solve a drastic budget crisis. After a pair of last-minute ballot measures failed to win funds for the city&#8217;s embattled libraries, the doors will soon close on what is for many curious minds, the only resource in town.<br \/>\nIs the local community library going extinct? (<em>image: John Steinbeck Library, Salinas<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 150,000 citizens of Salinas, California will soon be without a single public library &#8211; a drastic measure taken by the city to solve a drastic budget crisis. After a pair of last-minute ballot measures failed to win funds for the city&#8217;s embattled libraries, the doors will soon close on what is for many curious [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1060],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries-search-and-the-web"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}