{"id":8562,"date":"2011-06-13T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/?p=8562"},"modified":"2011-06-12T19:13:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-12T19:13:44","slug":"civil-service-book-shop-89-worth-street-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2011\/06\/13\/civil-service-book-shop-89-worth-street-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil Service Book Shop &#8211; 89 Worth Street &#8211; NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/manhattan\/nyc_civil_service_book_store.jpg?resize=570%2C760\" alt=\"\" width=\"570\" height=\"760\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>The Civil Service Bookshop at 89 Worth Street in Lower Manhattan has an old yellow sign that says \u201cCivil Service Test Books\u201d and \u201cLatest Paperbacks.\u201d\u00a0So what\u2019s the deal, I needled the owner, Roslyn Rosenfeld, you need the test books to get the job, and then the paperbacks to read, on the job?\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t be a wise guy, I\u2019ve had a hard day,\u201d Ms. Rosenfeld snapped on Wednesday. \u201cI\u2019m really not in the mood.\u201d &#8211;\u00a0<a title=\"See all posts by COREY KILGANNON\" href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/author\/corey-kilgannon\/\" target=\"_blank\">COREY KILGANNON<\/a> &#8211; <\/em><strong>NY TIMES &#8211; <\/strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/02\/05\/she-sells-the-books-on-the-civil-service\/\" target=\"_blank\">She Sells the Books on the Civil Service<\/a><\/em><strong> &#8211;\u00a0February 5, 2009, <\/strong><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em> <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Civil Service Bookshop at 89 Worth Street in Lower Manhattan has an old yellow sign that says \u201cCivil Service Test Books\u201d and \u201cLatest Paperbacks.\u201d\u00a0So what\u2019s the deal, I needled the owner, Roslyn Rosenfeld, you need the test books to get the job, and then the paperbacks to read, on the job?\u00a0\u201cDon\u2019t be a wise [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[183,643,1115,1452],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-ghost-signs-ghost-ads-other-phantoms","category-ny","category-storefronts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-2e6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}