{"id":94,"date":"2014-04-30T23:26:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T23:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=94"},"modified":"2014-04-30T23:26:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-30T23:26:03","slug":"again-with-the-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=94","title":{"rendered":"Again With the Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-97\" src=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/happiness.jpg\" alt=\"happiness\" width=\"255\" height=\"197\" \/>So this post is by way of being a test for myself.\u00a0 Back with the old blog, I wrote a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluecandlesociety.net\/?s=library\">series of posts on libraries<\/a>, and despite a great deal of temptation, I managed to avoid calling down vast amounts of web traffic with the particular kinds of pictures of librarians that are quite popular, and are legion on the internet, settling instead of staid and educational photos.<\/p>\n<p>I resolved to avoid library posts altogether after the last one, lest I give in and trade massive page hits for the integrity which you, my reader, have come to expect.\u00a0 But not long ago, a study on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/304899\/Quantifying_and_valuing_the_wellbeing_impacts_of_sport_and_culture.pdf\">Quantifying and Valuing the Wellbeing Impacts of Culture and Sport<\/a>&#8221; was done in the UK, and now that I&#8217;m here in a new blog, I thought perhaps I could give it another go.\u00a0 After all, it combines two of my favorite things: libraries and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=748\">quantifying stuff<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It will come as no surprise that visiting libraries is a great path to happiness, worth almost 1,400 pounds\/year\/person (happiness and libraries &#8211; you see how well I resist temptation?)\u00a0 Libraries are worth more happiness value to the typical person than taking in a bunch of art or playing sports, in fact. Not only does this tell us that readers are not only smarter than most people, but happier, it also lets us know what should be first on the chopping block when public resources are scarce.\u00a0 Sorry, museums and stadiums.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So this post is by way of being a test for myself.\u00a0 Back with the old blog, I wrote a series of posts on libraries, and despite a great deal of temptation, I managed to avoid calling down vast amounts &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/?p=94\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4qgvH-1w","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":98,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94\/revisions\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/internetmanifestation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}