{"id":10280,"date":"2020-06-05T01:20:26","date_gmt":"2020-06-05T06:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10280"},"modified":"2020-06-05T04:06:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-05T09:06:54","slug":"local-indies-educate-thunderbolts-and-meals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10280","title":{"rendered":"local indies educate, thunderbolts, and meals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/spriteshoots\/49959572077\/in\/dateposted\/\" title=\"Cherries\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/49959572077_ac81a93430_w.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" alt=\"Cherries\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Three beautiful things from my past week:<\/p>\n<p>1. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loyaltybookstores.com\">Loyalty Bookstores<\/a>, one of D.C.&#8217;s indie bookstores owned by a Black woman, posted they&#8217;d received hundreds of orders this week requesting <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/lists\/antiracist-reading-recs\">anti-racist books<\/a>. Another local Black-owned bookstore, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mahoganybooks.com\">Mahogany Books<\/a>, was featured in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5846732\/books-to-read-about-anti-racism\/\">Time<\/a><\/em>. D.C.&#8217;s other POC-owned indies &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.events.sankofa.com\">Sankofa<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidstatebooksdc.com\">Solid State Books<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.duendedistrict.com\">Duende District<\/a> &#8212; also report people have placed a flurry of orders this week with a strong focus on getting more woke.<\/p>\n<p>2. Super dramatic thunderstorms rolled through the area tonight (just after we watered the garden, of course).<\/p>\n<p>3. Jos\u00c3\u00a9 And\u00c3\u00a9s&#8217; local philanthropic endeavor, World Central Kitchen, reports they&#8217;ve made more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtoncitypaper.com\/food\/young-hungry\/article\/21136111\/world-central-kitchen-has-cooked-close-to-500000-meals-at-nats-park-during-covid19\">half a million meals<\/a> since the pandemic began. Many of those meals have been cooked in the empty concession kitchens at Nationals Park.<\/p>\n<p>How about you? What&#8217;s beautiful things have been getting you through this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three beautiful things from my past week: 1. Loyalty Bookstores, one of D.C.&#8217;s indie bookstores owned by a Black woman, posted they&#8217;d received hundreds of orders this week requesting anti-racist books. Another local Black-owned bookstore, Mahogany Books, was featured in Time. D.C.&#8217;s other POC-owned indies &#8212; Sankofa, Solid State Books, and Duende District &#8212; also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-three-beautiful-things"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>local indies educate, thunderbolts, and meals - sprite writes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spritewrites.net\/?p=10280\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"local indies educate, thunderbolts, and meals - sprite writes\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Three beautiful things from my past week: 1. 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