{"id":13217,"date":"2017-08-25T00:13:13","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T04:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=13217"},"modified":"2017-08-25T00:13:13","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T04:13:13","slug":"rainy-day-pal-books-711-east-main-street-suite-h-16-july-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=13217","title":{"rendered":"Rainy Day Pal Books, 711 East Main Street Suite H: 16 July 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1410891.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1410891_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1410891_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1410891_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1410896.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1410896_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1410896_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1410896_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1410897.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1410897_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1410897_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1410897_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1410905.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1410905_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1410905_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1410905_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1440976.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1440976_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1440976_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1440976_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1440977.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1440977_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1440977_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1440977_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1440978.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/08\/p1440978_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1440978_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1440978_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This old school used book store was on the upper level of the <i>Old Mill<\/i> on US-1 in Lexington.  I stopped by back in May when I was having lunch at the brewpub.  They had a nice selection of SF -- I even picked up some A. E. Van Vogt in French.  Not that I could read them.  At one time I probably had a grade-school understanding, but that's long gone.  At any rate though, he always said he was more popular in France than the US because his translations were done by a French poet.  They're certainly not exemplary prose in English, but that Van Vogt dream logic pulls you in..<\/p>\n<p>The later pictures are from August.<\/p>\n<p>There is a nice little farewell message on the shop's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Rainy-Day-Pal-Books-202756673160940\/\">Facebook Page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter James R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This old school used book store was on the upper level of the Old Mill on US-1 in Lexington. I stopped by back in May when I was having lunch at the brewpub. They had a nice selection of SF -- I even picked up some A. E. Van Vogt in French. Not that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2330,26,1055,389,2331,4,286],"class_list":["post-13217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-711-east-main-street","tag-books","tag-east-main-street","tag-lexington","tag-old-mill","tag-stores","tag-us-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}