{"id":568,"date":"2022-07-15T00:18:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T00:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/?p=568"},"modified":"2022-07-19T16:29:31","modified_gmt":"2022-07-19T16:29:31","slug":"willistead-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/en_ca\/willistead-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Willistead Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who remembers the library in Willistead Manor? The first time I remember visiting the library was with my mother. Once I was a little older, she would let me walk from our home on Devonshire alone. This was when it was normal for a 6 or 7 year old to walk a few blocks on their own and no one worried about them. Mother didn&#8217;t allow us to check out books because she firmly believed that one should never be a borrower, even with books, because you never knew what could happen to them at home so I spent hours reading the Bobbsey Twins or Nancy Drew. Sometimes the librarian would allow me to sit outside and read and, to this day, nothing pleases me more than a book and cold drink in the shade of the yard.\u00a0Mother worried that I didn&#8217;t spend time outside playing with other girls but Nan, Bert, Flossie and Freddie* were the children that I most loved spending time with. I was not the type to play sports in the street or push dolls in strollers.<\/p>\n<p>The beauty of Walkerville and it&#8217;s buildings has always intrigued me and I am incredibly lucky to have grown up there.<\/p>\n<p>Catherine &#8211; 72 &#8211; Windsor<\/p>\n<p>* Bobbsey Twin Characters<\/p>\n<p>Picture from the Windsor Public Library. Click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windsorpubliclibrary.com\/?p=63929\">here<\/a> to see original source.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who remembers the library in Willistead Manor? The first time I remember visiting the library was with my mother. Once I was a little older, she would let me walk from our home on Devonshire alone. This was when it was normal for a 6 or 7 year old to walk a few blocks on &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/en_ca\/willistead-library\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Willistead Library<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":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":[1],"tags":[16,204,31,202,203],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-yqg","tag-life-in-the-60s","tag-walkerville","tag-willistead","tag-windsor-public-library"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/Preschool_stories_at_Willistead_Library-e1658247573164.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/windsoressexremembers.ca\/en_ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}