{"id":223866,"date":"2016-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/letters-to-the-editor-nov-25-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T08:00:00","slug":"letters-to-the-editor-nov-25-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/letters-to-the-editor-nov-25-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters to the editor \u2013 Nov. 25, 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reading and libraries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Re: \u201cLa Mesa Reads: Books by and about veterans\u201d [Volume 6, Issue 10]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kudos to Librarian Heather Pisani-Kristl for her thoughtful piece on Veterans Day reading. Another unmistakable example of the multiple, varied and continuous contributions local libraries make to our quality of life.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>While it is a shame that the sitting City Council apparently cannot find the will to finish La Mesa\u2019s permanent library, that failure does not give the rest of us a pass. By design, the planned La Mesa Library would serve as a vibrant hub for learning and citizen participation in a revitalized city center.<\/p>\n<p>Those working, like Ms. Pisani-Kristl, in less-than-ideal circumstances in the temporary facility deserve our gratitude and our support. But that\u2019s not enough. Let\u2019s pay it forward and finish the permanent library \u2013 it\u2019s clearly up to us.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014Dr. Anthony McIvor<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading and libraries Re: \u201cLa Mesa Reads: Books by and about veterans\u201d [Volume 6, Issue 10] Kudos to Librarian Heather Pisani-Kristl for her thoughtful piece on Veterans Day reading. Another unmistakable example of the multiple, varied and continuous contributions local libraries make to our quality of life.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":223864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11548","_seopress_titles_title":"Letters to the editor \u2013 Nov. 25, 2016","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11547,11548,11593,11552],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-la-mesa-courier","category-no-images","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}