{"id":34721,"date":"2024-12-06T14:44:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T19:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/?p=34721"},"modified":"2024-12-06T14:45:46","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T19:45:46","slug":"i-got-my-first-library-card-when-i-was-just-four-years-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/i-got-my-first-library-card-when-i-was-just-four-years-old\/","title":{"rendered":"I got my first library card when I was just four years old…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As soon I was old enough to print my name on the form, I made my mom take me to the library. We lived just down the road from the South Side Branch and I couldn\u2019t wait to go. My older brother already had his card and I was so jealous. He loved to read\u2014his first word was\u00a0book! He was part of the\u00a0summer program<\/a>\u00a0(\u201cReading is Fun!\u201d) and I couldn\u2019t believe he got prizes just for reading.<\/p>\n

I carefully printed my name on the form, thankful I didn\u2019t have to do my whole long last name. Writing my first name was hard enough for a four year-old! The librarian prepared the card, and from the moment Mrs. Helms handed it to me, the library became a lifelong companion.<\/p>\n

Now, 70 years later, I still use the Bethlehem Area Public Library. It\u2019s been a constant source of joy, learning, and comfort throughout my life. The library has given me so much over the years, and I can\u2019t imagine a world without it.\u00a0Please consider supporting BAPL<\/a>\u00a0during this year\u2019s appeal to ensure it remains a treasured resource for future generations, just like it has been for me.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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As soon I was old enough to print my name on the form, I made my mom take me to the library. We lived just down the road from the South Side Branch and I couldn\u2019t wait to go. My older brother already had his card and I was so jealous. He loved to read\u2014his […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","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":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bapl-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVu5I-921","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34721"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34724,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34721\/revisions\/34724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}