{"id":2781,"date":"2017-06-03T01:23:18","date_gmt":"2017-06-03T08:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/?p=2781"},"modified":"2017-06-03T22:15:14","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T05:15:14","slug":"end-of-an-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/end-of-an-era\/","title":{"rendered":"end of an era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my earliest memories are in the Berryessa Public Library. I&#8217;d go there with the family as a wee child and then alone as a teenager and adult.\u00a0It wasn&#8217;t until adulthood that I would start sneaking in Slurpees into the library from the neighboring 7-Eleven. Usually\u00a0something blue. I&#8217;d poke around the bookshelves and study desks as if nothing happened.<\/p>\n<p>Open drinks feel taboo in libraries, but I&#8217;d rationalize it by telling myself that I&#8217;d be extra quiet with the slurping noises when\u00a0I&#8217;m drinking out of a straw. It&#8217;s a library after all.<\/p>\n<p>But those days are over:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_5239.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2818 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_5239-e1496531465971.png?resize=750%2C953\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"953\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_5239-e1496531465971.png?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/img_5239-e1496531465971.png?resize=236%2C300&amp;ssl=1 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder what made the librarians snap. I&#8217;m surprised it took this long. Sticky drinks don&#8217;t mix too well with paperback books and plastic keyboards, and it&#8217;s not like Slurpees and bubble teas are a recent invention.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Mom and Colleen (and her mom) say I shouldn&#8217;t be drinking so much high fructose corn syrup anyway. Ho-hum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of my earliest memories are in the Berryessa Public Library. I&#8217;d go there with the family as a wee child and then alone as a teenager and adult.\u00a0It wasn&#8217;t until adulthood that I would start sneaking in Slurpees into the library from the neighboring 7-Eleven. Usually\u00a0something blue. I&#8217;d poke around the bookshelves and study &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/end-of-an-era\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;end of an era&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"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-2781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3MSpn-IR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2781"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2781\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wesleyschan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}