{"id":2080,"date":"2015-11-16T10:05:05","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T17:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=2080"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:51:19","slug":"weapon-of-mass-instruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2015\/11\/16\/weapon-of-mass-instruction\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;weapon of mass instruction&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boredpanda.com\/free-book-tank-library-weapon-of-mass-instruction-raul-lemesoff\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2081\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/11\/free-book-tank-library-weapon-of-mass-instruction-raul-lemesoff-9.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"free-book-tank-library-weapon-of-mass-instruction-raul-lemesoff-9\" width=\"300\" height=\"153\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/11\/free-book-tank-library-weapon-of-mass-instruction-raul-lemesoff-9.jpg 880w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/11\/free-book-tank-library-weapon-of-mass-instruction-raul-lemesoff-9-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/11\/free-book-tank-library-weapon-of-mass-instruction-raul-lemesoff-9-768x391.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2015\/11\/free-book-tank-library-weapon-of-mass-instruction-raul-lemesoff-9-624x318.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In honor of World Book Day 2015 (March 5), Argentinian artist Raul Lemesoff created an &#8220;Arma de Instruccion Masiva&#8221; (weapon of mass instruction), a tank-like vehicle full of free books. He drove it around the city of Buenos Aires, giving books to anyone who promised to read them. Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/geordielishman.com\/\">Geordie Lishman<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of World Book Day 2015 (March 5), Argentinian artist Raul Lemesoff created an &#8220;Arma de Instruccion Masiva&#8221; (weapon of mass instruction), a tank-like vehicle full of free books. He drove it around the city of Buenos Aires, giving books to anyone who promised to read them. Thanks, Geordie Lishman!<\/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-2080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-xy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080","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=2080"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2080\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}