{"id":5,"date":"2010-07-26T13:31:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T18:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/about\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T11:20:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T17:20:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/files\/2024\/12\/Sutton-Memorial-Library-Pic.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2112\" height=\"1119\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/files\/2024\/12\/Sutton-Memorial-Library-Pic.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-311\" style=\"width:484px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/files\/2024\/12\/Sutton-Memorial-Library-Pic.jpg 2112w, https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/files\/2024\/12\/Sutton-Memorial-Library-Pic-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/files\/2024\/12\/Sutton-Memorial-Library-Pic-1024x543.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/files\/2024\/12\/Sutton-Memorial-Library-Pic-768x407.jpg 768w, https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/files\/2024\/12\/Sutton-Memorial-Library-Pic-1536x814.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/files\/2024\/12\/Sutton-Memorial-Library-Pic-2048x1085.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/files\/2024\/12\/Sutton-Memorial-Library-Pic-150x79.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2112px) 100vw, 2112px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The library in Sutton has been in existence as a public library since 1908 and, unofficially, even before then. Its location now is at 201 S. Saunders, just south of Brown&#8217;s Thrift Store in the Sutton business district. It is a spacious building that has worked well since its beginning in 1986 when it was purchased with funds provided by a Sutton resident, a grant from the Nebraska Library Commission, and further help from the Sutton Public Library Friend&#8217;s group. The original location, which was located further north on Saunders Avenue, was a Carnegie building completed in 1910 and later condemned in 1969. The library was temporarily housed in the A.W. Lewis building until the current facility was ready to house the library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sutton Memorial Library has a collection of over 16,000 books, audio-books, DVDs, and video-cassettes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The library in Sutton has been in existence as a public library since 1908 and, unofficially, even before then. Its location now is at 201 S. Saunders, just south of Brown&#8217;s Thrift Store in the Sutton business district. It is a spacious building that has worked well since its beginning&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/about\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":348,"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/sutton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}