{"id":3324,"date":"2018-01-30T13:27:04","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T20:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=3324"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:51:19","slug":"ankara-free-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2018\/01\/30\/ankara-free-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Ankara free library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2018\/01\/15\/europe\/garbage-collectors-open-library-with-abandoned-books\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3325\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/01\/180115201055-ankara-library-02-exlarge-169.jpg\" alt=\"180115201055-ankara-library---02-exlarge-169\" width=\"780\" height=\"438\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/01\/180115201055-ankara-library-02-exlarge-169.jpg 780w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/01\/180115201055-ankara-library-02-exlarge-169-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/01\/180115201055-ankara-library-02-exlarge-169-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/files\/2018\/01\/180115201055-ankara-library-02-exlarge-169-624x350.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 780px) 100vw, 780px\" \/><\/a>Garbage collectors in Ankara, Turkey set aside discarded books and started up a small library for their own use. With donations, it grew, and the library now has a\u00a0full-time government-paid staff position.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Dina Wood!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garbage collectors in Ankara, Turkey set aside discarded books and started up a small library for their own use. With donations, it grew, and the library now has a\u00a0full-time government-paid staff position. Thanks, Dina Wood!<\/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-3324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-RC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324","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=3324"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3868,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3324\/revisions\/3868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}