{"id":667865,"date":"2010-02-18T00:28:43","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T05:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globalvoicesonline.org\/?p=123246"},"modified":"2026-10-04T10:43:31","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T14:43:31","slug":"russia-bloggers-discuss-utilization-of-old-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/667865","title":{"rendered":"Russia: Bloggers Discuss Utilization of Old Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Libraries are throwing away old books due to old age and lack of readership, literary critic Alexander Zhitinski <a href=\"http:\/\/maccolit.livejournal.com\/817268.html\">reported<\/a> [RUS]. A library in Saint-Petersburg had to throw away all the books published before 1999. Mistreatment of books provoked a heated\u00a0 discussion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chaskor.ru\/article\/biblioteki_protiv_knig_10313\">online<\/a> [RUS] while\u00a0 mainstream media ignored the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libraries are throwing away old books due to old age and lack of readership, literary critic Alexander Zhitinski reported [RUS]. A library in Saint-Petersburg had to throw away all the books published before 1999. Mistreatment of books provoked a heated\u00a0 discussion online [RUS] while\u00a0 mainstream media ignored the subject.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3652,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2NK1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769402,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667865\/revisions\/769402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}