{"id":38995,"date":"2025-04-17T04:19:54","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T04:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/book-brigade-us-town-forms-human-chain-to-move-9100-books-one-by-one\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T04:19:54","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T04:19:54","slug":"book-brigade-us-town-forms-human-chain-to-move-9100-books-one-by-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/book-brigade-us-town-forms-human-chain-to-move-9100-books-one-by-one\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Book brigade\u2019: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small Michigan community banded together to help a beloved local bookstore move its stock to a new storefront<\/p>\n<p>Residents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and helped a local bookshop move each of its 9,100 books \u2013 one by one \u2013 to a new storefront about a block away.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cbook brigade\u201d of about 300 people stood in two lines running along a sidewalk in downtown Chelsea on Sunday, passing each title from Serendipity Books\u2019 former location directly to the correct shelves in the new building, down the block and around the corner on Main Street.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/17\/book-brigade-us-town-forms-human-chain-to-move-9100-books-one-by-one\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small Michigan community banded together to help a beloved local bookstore move its stock to a new storefront Residents of all ages in a small Michigan community formed a human chain and helped a local bookshop move each of its 9,100 books \u2013 one by one \u2013 to a new storefront about a block &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Book brigade\u2019: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/book-brigade-us-town-forms-human-chain-to-move-9100-books-one-by-one\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Book brigade\u2019: US town forms human chain to move 9,100 books one-by-one\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}