{"id":5959,"date":"2016-10-18T14:08:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T19:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/?p=5959"},"modified":"2021-10-22T07:11:09","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T11:11:09","slug":"rose-is-rose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2016\/10\/18\/rose-is-rose.html","title":{"rendered":"Rose is Rose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back at the Rose Main Reading Room, which reopened a couple of weeks ago after being closed for maybe 2 or 3 years. It is not as stupendously beautiful as I seem to remember, but still a great place to be. I actually think there are too many books. People seem to look at them but I rarely see anyone taking one off the shelf.<\/p>\n<p>I need to pay a visit to the Library of Congress. My attempts to get materials via Interlibrary Loan got nowhere, and with no explanation. Actually I think the LOC denied the requests because they are a research library, which means everything there is non-circulating. I might have thought ILL was an exception to that rule but I guess not. Bastards.<\/p>\n<p>A myth about the LOC which I never thought to look into is that one copy of every book and periodical ever published is required to be donated to the library. Somehow I made it this far in life believing that to be true.<\/p>\n<p>I walked here from AsLIC. Reflecting on a long and at times beautiful conversation I shared with a friend last night. Thinking of walking back to AsLIC. I have the energy, which is strange since I have eaten nothing but a banana this day.<\/p>\n<p>Really, nothing to say except that the great Rose Reading Room is back. Yay.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"300\" width=\"300\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5960\" title=\"20161018_144202\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/mobi\/37\/2016\/10\/20161018_144202-1024x768.jpg?fit=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back at the Rose Main Reading Room, which reopened a couple of weeks ago after being closed for maybe 2 or 3 years. It is not as stupendously beautiful as I seem to remember, but still a great place to be. I actually think there are too many books. People seem to look at them [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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_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":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-text","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/20161018_144202-1024x7681-1.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-1y7","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959","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=5959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29625,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5959\/revisions\/29625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}