{"id":2964,"date":"2018-01-11T18:00:13","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/?p=2964"},"modified":"2018-03-24T16:58:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-24T20:58:18","slug":"fred-bass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/fred-bass","title":{"rendered":"Fred Bass"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"intro\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-top: -60px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.com\/show\/images\/guests\/FredBass.jpg\" alt=\"Fred Bass\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.strandbooks.com\/\">Strand Book Store<\/a> in New York City was founded by Fred\u2019s father Benjamin in 1927. Fred was born in 1928 and has been working in the family business since he was thirteen years old. The Strand has roughly 2.5 million used, rare, and new books\u2014the equivalent of roughly 18 miles of books.<\/p>\n<p>Fred spoke to Jessica Harris about how he and his father turned the Strand into one of New York\u2019s literary landmarks, from scratch. Fred died in January, 2018 at 89 years old, a few months after celebrating the Strand\u2019s 90th birthday.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"wpaudio\" href=\"http:\/\/fromscratchradio.com\/audio\/FredBass-FromScratch-011118.mp3\">Listen to the interview<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strand Book Store in New York City was founded by Fred\u2019s father Benjamin in 1927. Fred was born in 1928 and has been working in the family business since he was thirteen years old. The Strand has roughly 2.5 million used, rare, and new books\u2014the equivalent of roughly 18 miles of books. Fred spoke to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guests"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2964"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3279,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2964\/revisions\/3279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fromscratchradio.org\/show\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}