{"id":1503,"date":"2013-01-20T12:05:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-20T19:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1503"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:20:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:20:57","slug":"australian-library-reclassifies-lance-armstrong-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2013\/01\/20\/australian-library-reclassifies-lance-armstrong-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian library reclassifies Lance Armstrong books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BuzzFeedAndrew\/status\/293057916028735488\/photo\/1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1504 alignleft\" alt=\"armstrong\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/armstrong.jpg?w=150\" width=\"150\" height=\"147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/01\/armstrong.jpg 624w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2013\/01\/armstrong-300x295.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manly.nsw.gov.au\/library\/\">Manly Library<\/a> in Australia put up this sign recently, saying they shall be reclassifying Lance Armstrong&#8217;s books as fiction. Thanks, Tom Lovell!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE JANUARY 21, 2013: it appears this shenanigan was a prank (is that redundant?). The library does not actually plan to reclassify the books. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-21115720\">an article<\/a> explaining what happened. Thanks, Brian Springett!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Manly Library in Australia put up this sign recently, saying they shall be reclassifying Lance Armstrong&#8217;s books as fiction. Thanks, Tom Lovell! UPDATE JANUARY 21, 2013: it appears this shenanigan was a prank (is that redundant?). The library does not actually plan to reclassify the books. Here&#8217;s an article explaining what happened. Thanks, Brian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"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,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-of","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1503"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4053,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1503\/revisions\/4053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}