{"id":3703,"date":"2012-09-25T12:35:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T18:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryshenanigans.wordpress.com\/?p=1261"},"modified":"2026-02-11T22:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:51:19","slug":"hernando-guanlaos-private-public-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/2012\/09\/25\/hernando-guanlaos-private-public-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Hernando Guanlao&#8217;s private public library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-19547365\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1420\" title=\"_62987483_new_library_624\" src=\"http:\/\/jessyrandall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/62987483_new_library_624.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a>Hernando Guanlao has been running his own version of a public library for twelve years in Manila. The library has grown from about a hundred books to a few thousand. From the article: &#8220;The idea is simple. Readers can take as many books as they want, for as long as they want &#8211; even permanently. As Guanlao says: &#8216;The only rule is that there are no rules.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Dina Wood!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hernando Guanlao has been running his own version of a public library for twelve years in Manila. The library has grown from about a hundred books to a few thousand. From the article: &#8220;The idea is simple. Readers can take as many books as they want, for as long as they want &#8211; even permanently. [&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-3703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-shenanigans"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3q4oW-XJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703","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=3703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3883,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3703\/revisions\/3883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.coloradocollege.edu\/ccspecialcollections\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}