{"id":189303,"date":"2010-04-20T16:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/20\/george-washingtons-body-to-be-exhumed-by-irate-librarians\/"},"modified":"2010-04-20T16:14:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T21:14:00","slug":"george-washingtons-body-to-be-exhumed-by-irate-librarians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/04\/20\/george-washingtons-body-to-be-exhumed-by-irate-librarians\/","title":{"rendered":"George Washington&#8217;s Body to be Exhumed by Irate Librarians"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; width: 320px; float: right; text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img228.imageshack.us\/img228\/3082\/libraryanxieties1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img227.imageshack.us\/img227\/4509\/libraryanxieties2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img15.imageshack.us\/img15\/7407\/libraryanxieties3.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img191.imageshack.us\/img191\/5545\/libraryanxieties4.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img227.imageshack.us\/i\/libraryanxieties5.jpg\/\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img16.imageshack.us\/img16\/5707\/libraryanxieties6.jpg\" \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Yes, it&#8217;s in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">my<\/span> anxiety closet too.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Archivists have discovered that George Washington borrowed books from the New York Library when he was President, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/world\/2010\/apr\/18\/george-washington-library-new-york\">now owes the equivalent of $300,000.00 in overdue fines<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>Founder of a nation, trouncer of the English, God-fearing family man: all in all, George Washington has enjoyed a pretty decent reputation. Until now, that is.<\/p>\n<p>The hero who crossed the Delaware river may not have been quite so squeaky clean when it came to borrowing library books.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Society Library, the city&#8217;s only lender of books at the time of Washington&#8217;s presidency, has revealed that the first American president took out two volumes and pointedly failed to return them.<\/p>\n<p>At today&#8217;s prices, adjusted for inflation, he would face a late fine of $300,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, Mrs. McGreevey is coming after him.<\/p>\n<p>Apologies to Berkeley Breathed for rearranging the frames friom his horizontal format to a vertical one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, it&#8217;s in my anxiety closet too. Archivists have discovered that George Washington borrowed books from the New York Library when he was President, and now owes the equivalent of $300,000.00 in overdue fines: Founder of a nation, trouncer of the English, God-fearing family man: all in all, George Washington has enjoyed a pretty decent &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1011,1064,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-history","category-media","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189303"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}