{"id":3066,"date":"2009-07-06T22:17:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T02:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=3066"},"modified":"2009-07-06T22:17:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T02:17:08","slug":"awful-library-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/06\/awful-library-books.html","title":{"rendered":"Awful Library Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know it, even if you don&#8217;t admit it&#8230; your library has books that should have been weeded years ago, but have hung around until they become anachronistically funny.\u00a0 To give you an anonymous outlet for this outlandish situation, there is <a href=\"http:\/\/awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com\/\"><strong>Awful Library Books<\/strong><\/a>, a blog highlighting (only in a metaphorical way) those library books that serve to let us know that ours is not the only library that needs a good cleaning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/awfullibrarybooks.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/01\/stag-lines\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3067\" title=\"bookformen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bookformen.jpg\" alt=\"bookformen\" width=\"300\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bookformen.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/bookformen-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>found via <a href=\"http:\/\/lisnews.org\/awful_library_books\">LISNews<\/a>, who found it via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/arts\/article\/0,8599,1908729,00.html\">Time<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know it, even if you don&#8217;t admit it&#8230; your library has books that should have been weeded years ago, but have hung around until they become anachronistically funny.\u00a0 To give you an anonymous outlet for this outlandish situation, there &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/06\/awful-library-books.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":[2920,2921,2938,2943],"tags":[3956,4039,4958,4957],"class_list":["post-3066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-books","category-humor","category-libraries","tag-blog","tag-library","tag-time-magazine","tag-weeding"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-Ns","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}