{"id":947,"date":"2020-12-18T09:39:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/?p=947"},"modified":"2020-12-18T09:39:35","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T14:39:35","slug":"happy-holidays-from-the-mblc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/2020\/12\/18\/happy-holidays-from-the-mblc\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Holidays from the MBLC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-948\" src=\"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Picture1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"309\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Picture1.png 620w, https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Picture1-300x150.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>To Our Library Community and Partners,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This year has quite literally been one for the books. It\u2019s created challenges we\u2019ve never had to face but has made us grow closer and realize how much we need each other. You\u2019ve had to reinvent library services and you deserve enormous respect for the many ways you&#8217;ve made it work.<\/p>\n<p>As we continue to navigate this new normal, know that we\u2019re so impressed with the creativity and resilience you\u2019ve shown as you work to take care of yourself, those you love, and your community.<\/p>\n<p>You are the reason people love their libraries and your health and safety are what matter most. On behalf of the Commissioners and staff of the MBLC, I wish you a healthy and safe holiday season and hope we can be together soon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mary Ann Cluggish, <\/strong><em>Chair<\/em><br \/>\nMassachusetts Board of Library Commissioners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Our Library Community and Partners, This year has quite literally been one for the books. It\u2019s created challenges we\u2019ve never had to face but has made us grow closer and realize how much we need each other. You\u2019ve had to reinvent library services and you deserve enormous respect for the many ways you&#8217;ve made [&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":[2],"tags":[210,243],"class_list":["post-947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mblc","tag-covid-19","tag-happy-holidays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947","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=947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":949,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947\/revisions\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mblc.state.ma.us\/mblc_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}