{"id":3662,"date":"2011-01-05T17:21:58","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T17:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=969"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:21:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:21:06","slug":"can-a-book-save-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2011\/01\/05\/can-a-book-save-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Can a Book Save Your Life?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=-BSUmLAQG-4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-970\" title=\"bookbullet\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bookbullet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"80\" height=\"60\" \/><\/a>Can a book save your life? Well, not really. And with a Kindle you&#8217;ll die quickly. This isn&#8217;t really a library shenanigan, just a book shenanigan. I wonder if older books, with leather covers, might have offered more resistance? Thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/theraininmypurse.blogspot.com\/\">Sarah J. Sloat<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can a book save your life? Well, not really. And with a Kindle you&#8217;ll die quickly. This isn&#8217;t really a library shenanigan, just a book shenanigan. I wonder if older books, with leather covers, might have offered more resistance? Thanks, Sarah J. Sloat!<\/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-3662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-X4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662","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=3662"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4068,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3662\/revisions\/4068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}