{"id":3154,"date":"2021-11-23T23:01:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T23:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/?p=3154"},"modified":"2021-11-23T23:01:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T23:01:10","slug":"ankeny-adds-little-free-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/2021\/11\/23\/ankeny-adds-little-free-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Ankeny adds Little Free Library"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Church members Rhonda and Jim Bingman installed a Little Free Library in the front yard at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ankenycob.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ankeny (Iowa) Church of the Brethren<\/a>, reports Northern Plains District. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMemorial money was used to purchase the library box, post, and memorial plaque. The box is made from composite material so little maintenance should be necessary. Jim was the first borrower when he checked out one of his own books that Rhonda donated. A bench is planned to be added in the Spring. Hopefully the neighborhood and our own members will enjoy taking a book and leaving a book.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"271\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/LittleLibraryAtAnkenyChurch-PhotoCourtesyofRhondaBingmanandNPlainsDistrict-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3156\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/LittleLibraryAtAnkenyChurch-PhotoCourtesyofRhondaBingmanandNPlainsDistrict-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/37\/2021\/11\/LittleLibraryAtAnkenyChurch-PhotoCourtesyofRhondaBingmanandNPlainsDistrict-1-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><figcaption><em>Little Free Library at Ankeny Church of the Brethren. Photo courtesy of Rhonda Bingman and Northern Plains District.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Story from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/news\/\">Newsline<\/a>. Sign up to receive Church of the Brethren news at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/brethren.us4.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=fe053219fdb661c00183423ef&amp;id=ad38c0837a\" target=\"_blank\">www.brethren.org\/intouch<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ankeny Church of the Brethren now has a Little Free Library in the front yard. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[262,260,263,261],"class_list":["post-3154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-northern-plains","tag-26-010","tag-ankeny-church-of-the-brethren","tag-little-free-library","tag-northern-plains-district"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brethren.org\/church\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}