{"id":3228,"date":"2017-09-11T09:55:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T15:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=3228"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:49:46","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:49:46","slug":"pack-horse-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2017\/09\/11\/pack-horse-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Pack Horse Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/librarians-horseback-new-deal-book-delivery-wpa\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3233\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/09\/kids.jpg\" alt=\"kids\" width=\"1160\" height=\"909\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/09\/kids.jpg 1160w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/09\/kids-300x235.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/09\/kids-1024x802.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/09\/kids-768x602.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2017\/09\/kids-624x489.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1160px) 100vw, 1160px\" \/><\/a>In the 1930s in Kentucky, women on horseback delivered library books, traveling over 100 miles per week, as part of a WPA initiative to increase employment and literacy.<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/librarians-horseback-new-deal-book-delivery-wpa\"><em>Atlas Obscura<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Linda Gresham!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the 1930s in Kentucky, women on horseback delivered library books, traveling over 100 miles per week, as part of a WPA initiative to increase employment and literacy. Read the full article at Atlas Obscura. Thanks, Linda Gresham!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-Q4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3839,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3228\/revisions\/3839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}