{"id":1295,"date":"2012-08-03T12:40:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T16:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2012-08-03T12:40:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T16:40:06","slug":"torontos-little-free-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/03\/torontos-little-free-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Toronto's birdhouse-sized libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We\u2019re big advocates of libraries<\/a>, so when we heard about about Toronto’s Little Free Libraries<\/a>, we just knew that we had to share it with you!<\/p>\n

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These birdhouse-sized libraries are quite popular around the world and can be found in the U.S., Germany, the U.K., and Ghana. Last December, Toronto residents Bill Wrigley and Carolyn Swadron<\/a>, established the city\u2019s first Little Free Library on their front lawn in the Beach neighborhood and the libraries have spread across the Beach and Annex neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

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They offer communities access to free books 24 hours a day, seven days a week, no membership required and no late fees. The only rule is that if you take a book, you leave a book.<\/p>\n

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We love this concept and hope to see more of them in Toronto!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  We\u2019re big advocates of libraries, so when we heard about about Toronto’s Little Free Libraries, we just knew that we had to share it with you!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6],"tags":[113,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.context.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}