{"id":134776,"date":"2025-08-10T16:35:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T16:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134776\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T16:35:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T16:35:11","slug":"rumspringa-books-aims-to-add-literary-hub-to-downtown-springfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/134776\/","title":{"rendered":"Rumspringa Books aims to add literary hub to downtown Springfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" loading=\"eager\" alt=\"Rumspringa Books\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"hero-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6KGYQ3N5ONG6PIFJ2MSRGU7PEE.jpg\" \/>Rumspringa Books, which opened a year ago in the Nosh Cafe in downtown Springfield, is bringing authors to the city with a new program. (Douglas Hook \/ The Republican)Douglas Hook<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"7UF442M5WNDGJCMDXJQ5OGYLXE\">SPRINGFIELD \u2014 What began as a passion project for Brett Albert and Kate Kreider, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rumspringabooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.rumspringabooks.com\/\">co-owners of Rumspringa Books<\/a>, is evolving into a mission to make Springfield a literary destination. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--left\" id=\"ANKXPMQDSVEF5CU6R62FAMMZQY\">The married duo, who have been operating their independent bookstore out of Nosh Restaurant &amp; Cafe for more than a year, are launching an initiative to bring authors to downtown Springfield. <\/p>\n<p class=\"article__paragraph article__paragraph--center skimlinks\">If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/user-agreement.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.advancelocal.com\/advancelocalUserAgreement\/privacy-policy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rumspringa Books, which opened a year ago in the Nosh Cafe in downtown Springfield, is bringing authors to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":134777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[81386,75186,1022,31967,81387,171,81388,81389,81390,22482,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-134776","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-ae0806books","9":"tag-book-store","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-brett","12":"tag-brett-albert","13":"tag-entertainment","14":"tag-lisa-hooker","15":"tag-nosh","16":"tag-rumaspringa-books","17":"tag-the-republican","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-unitedstates","20":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115005444884283636","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}