{"id":22635,"date":"2020-09-11T14:16:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T05:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/11\/i-literally-weep-anguish-as-new-zealands-national-library-culls-600000-books"},"modified":"2020-09-11T14:16:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T05:16:47","slug":"i-literally-weep-anguish-as-new-zealands-national-library-culls-600000-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22635","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I literally weep&#8217;: anguish as New Zealand&#8217;s National Library culls 600,000 books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Academics, historians, researchers and scholars feel a literary crime is taking place during the distraction of the global pandemic<\/p>\n<p>Sheltered in the bunkers beneath the National Library in New Zealand\u2019s capital rests a treasure trove of books, including nearly 2,200 first editions that have been carefully looked after for decades. But not for much longer.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201coverseas collection\u201d \u2013 which includes a first edition of Richard Neville\u2019s Play Power<em>,<\/em> a 1912 edition of Jane Austen\u2019s Sense and Sensibility and multiple first editions of Graham Greene novels \u2013 is now headed out the door.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/11\/i-literally-weep-anguish-as-new-zealands-national-library-culls-600000-books\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Academics, historians, researchers and scholars feel a literary crime is taking place during the distraction of the global pandemicSheltered in the bunkers beneath the National Library in New Zealand\u2019s capital rests a treasure trove of books, including&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1411,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,511,71,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-culture","category-new-zealand","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1411"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22636,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22635\/revisions\/22636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}