{"id":4057,"date":"2016-07-26T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T09:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2016-07-23T19:07:37","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T23:07:37","slug":"good-idea-fashion-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-idea-fashion-library\/","title":{"rendered":"GOOD IDEA: Fashion Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Nate Eddy is the first to admit he\u2019s far from a\u00a0fashion expert. As strategy coordinator for the Philadelphia Free Library, he spends most of his time figuring out the best way for the 125-year-old institution to implement its ambitious strategic plan to \u201cbuild an enlightened community devoted to lifelong learning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yet this past January, Eddy found himself dedicating several workdays to browsing Amazon\u2019s necktie selection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not a tie aficionado,\u201d says the career librarian, 38, \u201cbut I do know wearing a nice tie can add a lot of confidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He eventually found a dozen designs he liked, and placed the order. On March 10, the ties debuted in their new home: On display in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Paschalville\/\" target=\"_blank\">Paschalville Branch Library<\/a> in Southwest Philly. Like anything else on the library\u2019s racks, the ties are available for borrowing for three weeks at a time, totally free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ctiebrary,\u201d as Eddy likes to call it, wasn\u2019t officially announced \u2014 it was launched softly, without any fanfare. But this\u00a0week, the Paschalville Branch got a special visitor, who inadvertently blew up the spot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[source: <a href=\"http:\/\/billypenn.com\/2016\/04\/02\/phillys-paschalville-library-has-a-new-collection-neckties\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/billypenn.com\/&#8230;<\/a>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nate Eddy is the first to admit he\u2019s far from a\u00a0fashion expert. As strategy coordinator for the Philadelphia Free Library, he spends<\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a class=\"myButt \" href=\"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/good-idea-fashion-library\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1600,"featured_media":4059,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,8,10,5,70,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1600"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4490,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions\/4490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/growpurpose.com\/charlestongood\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}