{"id":1520,"date":"2011-09-28T07:58:34","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T14:58:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2011\/09\/tiny_interventions\/"},"modified":"2011-09-28T07:58:34","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T14:58:34","slug":"tiny_interventions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/tiny_interventions.php","title":{"rendered":"Tiny interventions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After spending several days at a gathering discussing cultural mega-projects, it was a welcome relief to discover the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlefreelibrary.org\/\">Little Free Library<\/a> project, which has just found a foothold near my home in Wisconsin. Little Free Libraries are tiny shelters for books for community members to find interesting things to read, and to share the books they love. They are built and maintained by members of the community, or by community groups. And they are stocked by the people who use them.<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Little Free Library\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/images\/little_library_2.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<div>Large-scale cultural facility projects are bold efforts to reshape their communities through culture. They take Herculean coordination, planning, and resource development to construct, and equal efforts to maintain. Little Free Libraries are subatomic, by comparison, and can be built on a whim and managed in a moment (just take a look at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.littlefreelibrary.org\/plans-and-tips-for-builders.html\">some recommended blueprints<\/a>).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>I&#8217;m not suggesting one is a substitute for the other. But it can be useful to explore the full spectrum of cultural construction as you consider how to change your own surroundings. It&#8217;s also worth imagining: What would the performing arts equivalent be of the Little Free Library? What&#8217;s the diminutive version of Disney Hall?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After spending several days at a gathering discussing cultural mega-projects, it was a welcome relief to discover the Little Free Library project, which has just found a foothold near my home in Wisconsin. Little Free Libraries are tiny shelters for books for community members to find interesting things to read, and to share the books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}