{"id":373225,"date":"2010-02-25T16:13:04","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T21:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23344"},"modified":"2010-02-25T16:13:04","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T21:13:04","slug":"a-million-library-books-to-be-sent-down-the-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/373225","title":{"rendered":"A Million Library Books To Be Sent Down The Mines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 258px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23353 \" style=\"margin: 10px 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/disinfo.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/248px-Manchester_Central_Library.jpg\" alt=\"Manchester Central Library\" width=\"248\" height=\"174\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Manchester Central Library<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>By Deborah Linton for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/news\/s\/1190824_a_million_library_books_to_be_sent_down_the_mines\">Manchester Evening News<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>One million books from Manchester&#8217;s Central Library \u2013 including valuable volumes dating back to the 15th century &#8211; are to be put into temporarily storage with many going deep underground in the Cheshire salt mines.<\/p>\n<p>Works from the city&#8217;s reference library will be stored in the mines, hundreds of feet below ground, for the next three years while the landmark city centre site undergoes a massive refurbishment to save it from ruin.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the mine&#8217;s caverns \u2013 the size of 700 football pitches &#8211; provide the perfect environment for preserving the manuscripts, which include the works of eminent academics.<\/p>\n<p>A phased shut down of the St Peter&#8217;s Square library will begin next month, with the site closing its doors in June. The Library&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manchester Central Library By Deborah Linton for the Manchester Evening News: One million books from Manchester&#8217;s Central Library \u2013 including valuable volumes dating back to the 15th century &#8211; are to be put into temporarily storage with many going deep underground in the Cheshire salt mines. Works from the city&#8217;s reference library will be stored [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}