{"id":3634,"date":"2010-07-19T17:27:35","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T17:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=810"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:22:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:22:37","slug":"the-library-is-not-sinking-dammit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2010\/07\/19\/the-library-is-not-sinking-dammit\/","title":{"rendered":"The library is not sinking, dammit."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/college\/halls\/sinking.asp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-811\" title=\"snopes\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/snopes.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"179\" \/><\/a>I just heard from a friend that the library at Indiana University is sinking because the architects forgot to plan for the weight of the books. Aarrrrrggghhhhh. No, it isn&#8217;t, and no, they didn&#8217;t, and no, it&#8217;s not true at any other library either. This urban myth has been around since at least the late 1970s. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/college\/halls\/sinking.asp\">Snopes page<\/a> about it. Such a persistent rumor should qualify as a library shenanigan, I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard from a friend that the library at Indiana University is sinking because the architects forgot to plan for the weight of the books. Aarrrrrggghhhhh. No, it isn&#8217;t, and no, they didn&#8217;t, and no, it&#8217;s not true at any other library either. This urban myth has been around since at least the late [&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-3634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-WC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634","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=3634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4231,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3634\/revisions\/4231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}