{"id":792,"date":"2013-04-18T17:19:12","date_gmt":"2013-04-18T22:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=792"},"modified":"2013-04-18T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2013-04-18T22:19:12","slug":"not-only-is-this-a-great-resource-but-check-out-that-url","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=792","title":{"rendered":"Not Only Is This a Great Resource, But Check Out That URL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dp.la\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-794\" alt=\"library\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/library-300x220.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/library-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/library.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/dp.la\">The Digital Public Library of America (dp.la)<\/a> went live today.\u00a0 You just don&#8217;t see many 4-letter URLs these days.\u00a0 But even more impressive, perhaps, is that it is a free resource holding millions of manuscripts, photos, etc., held by various libraries and archives.\u00a0 Personally, I&#8217;ve been on the hunt for pictures of boring Victrorian-era rooms (as opposed to the homes of the rich and famous), but I imagine I&#8217;ll be able to come up with many other research-related uses for it.\u00a0 And so will you, I reckon.<\/p>\n<p>I would also like to note that once again, <a title=\"This Ought To Help Barnes and Noble\u2019s Business\" href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=779\">I have resisted the temptation to drive pageviews with a sexy librarian picture<\/a>, even though it would have been appropriate.\u00a0 Don&#8217;t tempt me a third time, current events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Public Library of America (dp.la) went live today.\u00a0 You just don&#8217;t see many 4-letter URLs these days.\u00a0 But even more impressive, perhaps, is that it is a free resource holding millions of manuscripts, photos, etc., held by various libraries and archives.\u00a0 Personally, I&#8217;ve been on the hunt for pictures of boring Victrorian-era rooms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}