{"id":15050,"date":"2014-08-05T20:26:12","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T01:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15050"},"modified":"2014-08-05T20:28:51","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T01:28:51","slug":"building-a-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15050","title":{"rendered":"Building a library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every day for weeks, here at the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, I have passed by an empty bookshelf in the hallway, just around the corner from the room where I&#8217;ve been staying.<\/p>\n<p>I realize that this is a centre for <i>digital<\/i> media, but the sight of that bare bookshelf, looking so empty and forlorn, would tug at my heart every time.  So finally I decided to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>This weekend, on a visit to Bowen Island, I came across a wonderfully illustrated book about Visual Thinking. I brought it back with me on the ferry yesterday morning, and put it on the shelf.  Now at least there would be one book!<\/p>\n<p>This morning I emerged from my room to discover that this first book had been joined by a second &#8212; a nice little paperback of short stories about Vancouver.   Overnight, the number of books in our emergent library had doubled!<\/p>\n<p>I am hopeful that people will continue to add books, and that our little shared bookshelf will grow and grow, one day becoming filled to the brim with good old-fashioned pre-digital media.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/bookshelf1.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every day for weeks, here at the Centre for Digital Media in Vancouver, I have passed by an empty bookshelf in the hallway, just around the corner from the room where I&#8217;ve been staying. I realize that this is a centre for digital media, but the sight of that bare bookshelf, looking so empty and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=15050\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Building a library&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15050"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15055,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15050\/revisions\/15055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}