{"id":827,"date":"2014-03-11T22:40:43","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T21:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/?p=827"},"modified":"2014-03-11T22:41:06","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T21:41:06","slug":"little-free-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2014\/little-free-libraries","title":{"rendered":"Little Free Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_13_0_ym1_10_1394570703702_25\">The <a title=\"SCBWI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scbwi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">SCBWI<\/a> bulletin this month mentioned this project, and I thought it was worth sharing and remembering.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s deceptively simple: put up a weather-resistant box, fill it with books, and label it &#8220;FREE BOOKS.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 People find you on the <a title=\"Map of libraries\" href=\"http:\/\/littlefreelibrary.org\/ourmap\/\" target=\"_blank\">online map<\/a>, and come to take or swap books from your mini-library with a mini-overhead and no membership cards.<\/p>\n<p>I know that kindles are mitigating the problem of having more books than shelf space, but it still strikes me as a neat way to combine decluttering with extra shelf space and new books.\u00c2\u00a0 Beyond that, a Little Free Library could be something for Grandpa&#8217;s yard &#8211; it might get him some visitors in a mood for conversation.\u00c2\u00a0 Or if you feel like donating one to an area that could use freely and easily available books, that&#8217;s an option, too.\u00c2\u00a0 <a title=\"Make\/Sponsor your own Little Free Library\" href=\"http:\/\/littlefreelibrary.org\/getinvolved\/\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s where you can get started!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you do set one up, please let me know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The SCBWI bulletin this month mentioned this project, and I thought it was worth sharing and remembering.\u00c2\u00a0 It&#8217;s deceptively simple: put up a weather-resistant box, fill it with books, and label it &#8220;FREE BOOKS.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 People find you on the online map, and come to take or swap books from your mini-library with a mini-overhead and no membership cards. I know that kindles are mitigating the problem of having more books than shelf space, but it still strikes me as a neat way to combine decluttering with extra shelf space and new books.\u00c2\u00a0 Beyond that, a Little Free Library could be something for Grandpa&#8217;s yard &#8211; it might get him some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":829,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}