{"id":731,"date":"2013-12-19T17:41:12","date_gmt":"2013-12-20T01:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=731"},"modified":"2013-12-19T17:41:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-20T01:41:12","slug":"vancouvers-commonweal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2013\/12\/19\/vancouvers-commonweal\/","title":{"rendered":"Vancouver&#8217;s Commonweal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/4945209887_ac8c3af18d_z.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-755\" alt=\"4945209887_ac8c3af18d_z\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/4945209887_ac8c3af18d_z-300x92.jpg?resize=300%2C92\" width=\"300\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/4945209887_ac8c3af18d_z.jpg?resize=300%2C92&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nocontest.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/4945209887_ac8c3af18d_z.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In North America it is Canada&#8217;s decided, tenacious commonweal that sets it\u00a0apart. We look after one another more often than not, and less out of zeal than out of habit and good sense.<\/p>\n<p>A city&#8217;s public library is a testament to its commonweal.<\/p>\n<p>I was delighted but not surprised, then, when I read that <a title=\"VPL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.vpl.ca\/\">Vancouver&#8217;s public library<\/a> had been\u00a0<a title=\"VPL\" href=\"http:\/\/www.straight.com\/blogra\/551981\/vancouver-public-library-named-worlds-best-city-library\">named the world&#8217;s best city library<\/a>\u00a0(tied with the\u00a0Biblioth\u00e8ques Montr\u00e9al), ranking very high in digital \/ social media resources as well as in physical spaces, collections, and services.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"VPL twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VPL\">The library has a good twitter feed<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In North America it is Canada&#8217;s decided, tenacious commonweal that sets it\u00a0apart. We look after one another more often than not, and less out of zeal than out of habit and good sense. A city&#8217;s public library is a testament &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2013\/12\/19\/vancouvers-commonweal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[89,105],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-resources-3","tag-vancouver"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}