{"id":20218,"date":"2017-03-09T18:43:01","date_gmt":"2017-03-10T02:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/writers-weir-gone-out-of-business\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T18:43:01","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T02:43:01","slug":"writers-weir-gone-out-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/writers-weir-gone-out-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers\u2019 Weir: Gone Out of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>For Dee<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The empty bookstore still<\/p>\n<p>smells of dust, frail paper,<\/p>\n<p>and stubborn ink. But,<\/p>\n<p><em>Ancient Men of the Arctic <\/em><\/p>\n<p>no longer subsist on aisle three<\/p>\n<p><em>Where<\/em> <em>Bright Waters Meet<\/em><\/p>\n<p>and <em>A River Never Sleeps<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>With the bookstore closed<\/p>\n<p>who will guide our children<\/p>\n<p>through <em>A Series of Unfortunate Events<\/em><\/p>\n<p>introduce them to <em>White Fang, <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Little Princess, <\/em>or recommend<\/p>\n<p><em>Are You There God? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>It&rsquo;s Me, Margaret. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Where can I go when the streets are wet<\/p>\n<p>to find Billy Collins joking<\/p>\n<p>with Mary Oliver and Sandburg, recline<\/p>\n<p>against a dusty bookshelf<\/p>\n<p>holding Hemingway<\/p>\n<p>or Forester if there&rsquo;s a storm?<\/p>\n<p><em>Dan Branch lives and writes in Juneau. He is a member of the Burn Thompson writers&rsquo; group and 49 Writers.<\/em><em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Dee The empty bookstore still smells of dust, frail paper, and stubborn ink. But, Ancient Men of the Arctic no longer subsist on aisle three Where Bright Waters Meet and A River Never Sleeps. With the bookstore closed who will <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/guide\/\">guide<\/a> our children through A Series of Unfortunate Events introduce them to White Fang, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[74],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-20218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-arts-and-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20218"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}