{"id":11224,"date":"2011-11-15T22:15:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-16T06:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=11224"},"modified":"2013-01-02T09:59:31","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T17:59:31","slug":"i-have-no-interest-in-living-in-a-city-without-a-bookstore-%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=11224","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;I have no interest in living in a city without a bookstore.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/patchettAnn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11228\" title=\"patchettAnn\" src=\"http:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/patchettAnn.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocala.com\/article\/20111115\/ZNYT02\/111153024?p=1&amp;tc=pg\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\">Author Ann Patchett on her new bookstore in Nashville, TN:<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have no interest in retail; I have no interest in opening a bookstore,\u201d Ms. Patchett said, serenely sipping tea during a recent interview at her spacious pink brick house here. \u201cBut I also have no interest in living in a city without a bookstore&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Patchett said that she is counting on her store to drive home a sharp, tough-love message to book lovers: buy books at independent stores, or the stores will go away.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not a showroom, this is not where you come in to scan your barcode,\u201d she said. \u201cIf you like this thing, it\u2019s your responsibility to keep this thing alive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Ann Patchett on her new bookstore in Nashville, TN: &#8220;I have no interest in retail; I have no interest in opening a bookstore,\u201d Ms. Patchett said, serenely sipping tea during a recent interview at her spacious pink brick house &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/?p=11224\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11224"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11231,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11224\/revisions\/11231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teensleuth.com\/hauntedlibrary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}