{"id":875,"date":"2020-06-16T10:31:27","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:31:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/?p=875"},"modified":"2020-06-16T10:31:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T14:31:27","slug":"libraries-are-needed-more-than-ever-but-many-arent-sure-how-to-reopen-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/2020\/06\/16\/libraries-are-needed-more-than-ever-but-many-arent-sure-how-to-reopen-amid-the-coronavirus-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Libraries are needed more than ever. But many aren&#8217;t sure how to reopen amid the coronavirus pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Jazmine Adams-McNeal tried time and time again to explain to her young daughter why their weekly trips to the library stopped suddenly in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It didn\u2019t go over well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cIt was a lot of meltdowns,\u201d said Adams-McNeal, 31, of Ferguson, Missouri. She, her wife and their children \u2013 a 4-year-old girl and twin 2-year-old boys \u2013 are staples at their local library.\u00a0 \u201cMy daughter grew up at the library. We stay going to all the programs. Definitely the lap-times on Fridays.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2020\/06\/11\/when-libraries-reopen-after-coronavirus-might-months\/5316591002\/?fbclid=IwAR3FsFl4Jc5ZmAnBwpIzscwhn7EHcpB_AVxSNQrdPAfuKURTe6m6Pp8FxQE\"><em><strong>Read more from USA Today<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jazmine Adams-McNeal tried time and time again to explain to her young daughter why their weekly trips to the library stopped suddenly in March. It didn\u2019t go over well. \u201cIt was a lot of meltdowns,\u201d said Adams-McNeal, 31, of Ferguson, Missouri. She, her wife and their children \u2013 a 4-year-old girl and twin 2-year-old boys [&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-875","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\/875","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=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}