{"id":28839,"date":"2021-09-22T10:17:21","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=28839"},"modified":"2021-09-22T10:17:21","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T14:17:21","slug":"got-a-little-lost-in-jersey-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2021\/09\/22\/got-a-little-lost-in-jersey-today.html","title":{"rendered":"Got a Little Lost in Jersey Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like getting lost. A little bit. Until it becomes monotonous.<\/p>\n

I made it over to Orange, NJ, today, to scout out what payphones might survive. I don’t know the town at all but, as expected, I found a few. I expected more but it’s all good. Seemed like a mellow, low-key town.<\/p>\n

I liked the Free Library on Main Street. That’s where I roamed the stacks some and got this unexpected mirror shot on the upstairs level.<\/p>\n

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Orange Free Library Unexpected Mirror<\/p><\/div>\n

Wandering the stacks of a library is something you might know how much you appreciate until something like COVID takes that privilege away.<\/p>\n

I went to a college with palatial stacks. On some floors you could barely see the top shelves, so high into the clouds did they rise. You couldn’t just reach up and grab a book. You needed ladders and elevators and a personal jetpack and an oxygen tank to get up into the firmament to get at that book you wanted.\u00a0THOSE<\/em> are library stacks.<\/p>\n

On that account sometimes it seems coy to call Orange’s Free Library’s shelves STACKS<\/em>. They barely reach over my head, man!<\/p>\n

Just kidding. Stacks are stacks. Even those Little Public Library cabinets, all of their two shelves are called stacks. Would a library with just one shelf say it had a stack<\/em>?<\/p>\n

This was a neat library, with an outsized stained glass window and a glass tile floor on the upper level. Not going to lie, though. I was mostly there for the bathroom.<\/p>\n

The bathroom was locked. Bummer. Maybe all I had to do was ask. I’d had to GO<\/em> since before even getting to Penn Station, over an hour earlier. No mind. The prostate holds up well. Hah. I make that comment aware how vulgar some people find it. As a middle aged bloke it’s just a very mild form of gallows humor, as the abyss widens.<\/p>\n

This is a video I made from the Free Library in Orange, NJ, yesterday.<\/p>\n

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I like getting lost. A little bit. Until it becomes monotonous. I made it over to Orange, NJ, today, to scout out what payphones might survive. I don’t know the town at all but, as expected, I found a few. I expected more but it’s all good. Seemed like a mellow, low-key town. I liked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-181-2","category-video","et_post_format-et-post-format-video","et-has-post-format-content"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-7v9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28842,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28839\/revisions\/28842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}