{"id":1001,"date":"2021-06-14T14:19:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T18:19:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/?p=1001"},"modified":"2021-06-14T14:19:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T18:19:27","slug":"many-turned-to-libraries-during-the-pandemic-for-free-wifi-and-other-services-will-these-venerable-public-institutions-get-the-credit-they-deserve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/2021\/06\/14\/many-turned-to-libraries-during-the-pandemic-for-free-wifi-and-other-services-will-these-venerable-public-institutions-get-the-credit-they-deserve\/","title":{"rendered":"Many turned to libraries during the pandemic for free Wifi and other services. Will these venerable public institutions get the credit they deserve?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\" data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_9712C34E-7951-49C2-6353-F679BFE1CEDF\" data-act-id=\"paragraph_0\">Ramses Escobedo probably wouldn&#8217;t call himself a hero. But during the pandemic, he was asked to act in some heroic ways. Escobedo, a bilingual Spanish-English librarian, manages a branch of the San Francisco Public Library. For more than a year, however, Escobedo hasn&#8217;t been lending out books. Instead, he&#8217;s worked with a Covid-19 contact tracer team for San Francisco&#8217;s Department of Public Health.<\/p>\n<p data-paragraph-id=\"paragraph_9712C34E-7951-49C2-6353-F679BFE1CEDF\" data-act-id=\"paragraph_0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/06\/13\/us\/coronavirus-libraries-pandemic\/index.html\"><strong><em>Read more from CNN<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ramses Escobedo probably wouldn&#8217;t call himself a hero. But during the pandemic, he was asked to act in some heroic ways. Escobedo, a bilingual Spanish-English librarian, manages a branch of the San Francisco Public Library. For more than a year, however, Escobedo hasn&#8217;t been lending out books. Instead, he&#8217;s worked with a Covid-19 contact tracer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news-bites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions\/1002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}