{"id":3305,"date":"2014-02-13T00:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T06:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3305"},"modified":"2014-02-13T00:30:03","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T06:30:03","slug":"how-about-these-blue-collar-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/?p=3305","title":{"rendered":"HOW ABOUT THESE &#8220;BLUE COLLAR&#8221; WORKERS?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img img300\" itemprop=\"image\" title=\"Classic Coal Miner Reading The Bible, Figurine Statue, New In Gift Box\" alt=\"Classic Coal Miner Reading The Bible, Figurine Statue, New In Gift Box\" src=\"http:\/\/i.ebayimg.com\/00\/s\/MTYwMFgxNjAw\/$(KGrHqN,!iMF!zFerdI1BQZI))BS6g~~60_35.JPG?set_id=880000500F\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;Welsh coal miners even had their own libraries. A study of the records of one them revealed that the number of books checked out equaled 86 annually for each miner who was a member. This culture of reading was so strong that these tough, working-class men would boast to one another that they had read every book in the library.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The entire article is fascinating:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.etsjets.org\/files\/JETS-PDFs\/52\/52-3\/JETS%2052-3%20519-535%20Larsen.pdf<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Welsh coal miners even had their own libraries. A study of the records of one them revealed that the number of books checked out equaled 86 annually for each miner who was a member. This culture of reading was so strong that these tough, working-class men would boast to one another that they had read [&hellip;]<\/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":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3305"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3379,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3305\/revisions\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twocities.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}