{"id":788,"date":"2020-03-25T10:23:34","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2020-03-25T10:23:34","modified_gmt":"2020-03-25T14:23:34","slug":"covid-19s-impact-on-libraries-goes-beyond-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/2020\/03\/25\/covid-19s-impact-on-libraries-goes-beyond-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19\u2019s Impact on Libraries Goes Beyond Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"lead-in-text-callout\">For Jennifer Pearson,<\/span> the choice was difficult but clear: Shut down the library, or people could die.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy library was filled with older people,\u201d Pearson says. \u201cI just wanted to go out and scream, \u2018Go home. What are you doing here?\u2019 I knew that if we didn&#8217;t make that move to close the building, they would never stop coming. We were, at that point, doing more harm than good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/covid-19-libraries-impact-goes-beyond-books\/\"><em><strong>Read more from Wired Magazine<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Jennifer Pearson, the choice was difficult but clear: Shut down the library, or people could die. \u201cMy library was filled with older people,\u201d Pearson says. \u201cI just wanted to go out and scream, \u2018Go home. What are you doing here?\u2019 I knew that if we didn&#8217;t make that move to close the building, they [&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":[202,210,211],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-library-news-bites","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-library-closures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","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=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}