{"id":2244,"date":"2024-01-29T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-28T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2244-bibliotherapy.html"},"modified":"2024-01-29T02:30:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-28T16:00:00","slug":"bibliotherapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2244-bibliotherapy.html","title":{"rendered":"Bibliotherapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:2910 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"636\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/33-_G2A9050.jpg\" alt=\"\"><br \/>\n<br \/>\nHave bookshops now entered the world of quirky eccentricity?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIt seems like only yesterday experiencing the novelty of buying a book through Amazon for the first time and now its almost all digital whether screen or audio.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI noticed Simon Prim\u2019s bookshop in Kinsale and the word \u2018Bibliotherapy\u2019 in the signage and it made me think about the role books and bookshops now have in our digital world.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nHaving a place where you can explore books, hold them in your hands and feel the weight of their pages as you turn them; where words transport us to other places, other times and other lives, is perhaps a therapy we all could use a little more of again.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n#simonprim #kinsale #bookshop #books #street #bibliotherapy<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have bookshops now entered the world of quirky eccentricity? It seems like only yesterday experiencing the novelty of buying a book through Amazon for the first time and now its almost all digital whether screen or audio. I noticed Simon Prim\u2019s bookshop in Kinsale and the word \u2018Bibliotherapy\u2019 in the signage and it made me &#8230; <a title=\"Bibliotherapy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/2244-bibliotherapy.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Bibliotherapy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}