{"id":620,"date":"2008-09-21T22:19:43","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T02:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/2008\/09\/21\/library-as-support-group\/"},"modified":"2008-09-21T22:19:43","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T02:19:43","slug":"library-as-support-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=620","title":{"rendered":"Library as Support Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is a belief that once you begin to open books, you will become a better person.\u00c2\u00a0 It is Pandora&#8217;s box, but in a good way.\u00c2\u00a0 You are inching toward the promised land, page by page.\u00c2\u00a0 And it doesn&#8217;t matter if you subscribe to this theory or not.\u00c2\u00a0 The subscription has already been bought and paid for.<\/p>\n<p>We are all misfits, poseurs, and clowns.\u00c2\u00a0 We are heartbroken and lonely, failures in life, criminals and frauds.\u00c2\u00a0 Most of our successes are pleasant illusions.\u00c2\u00a0 Through the books on the shelves, the library becomes a support group and lets us know that we are not alone.\u00c2\u00a0 Once we realize we are not alone, we can relax, set our burdens down, and move on.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Don Borchert, <em>Free for All, <\/em>p. xiv-xv<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a belief that once you begin to open books, you will become a better person.\u00c2\u00a0 It is Pandora&#8217;s box, but in a good way.\u00c2\u00a0 You are inching toward the promised land, page by page.\u00c2\u00a0 And it doesn&#8217;t matter if you subscribe to this theory or not.\u00c2\u00a0 The subscription has already been bought and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-librarians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}