{"id":42431,"date":"2022-03-15T03:00:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/15\/nothing-was-stolen-new-zealanders-carry-on-borrowing-from-closed-unstaffed-library"},"modified":"2022-03-15T03:00:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-14T18:00:29","slug":"nothing-was-stolen-new-zealanders-carry-on-borrowing-from-closed-unstaffed-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=42431","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nothing was stolen\u2019: New Zealanders carry on borrowing from closed, unstaffed library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Door security error meant one of country\u2019s largest city libraries was left open for hours, allowing hundreds to browse shelves<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/newzealand\">New Zealand<\/a> celebrated a national holiday, one of the country\u2019s largest city libraries was closed, with staff and security given the day off. But an error with the automated door programming meant T\u016branga\u2019s doors opened to the public as usual \u2013 and the unstaffed and unsecured library was happily used by the public, who browsed and checked out books for hours before someone realised the mistake.<\/p>\n<p>As well as its books, the library is home to a wide variety of artworks and sculpture \u2013 but staff say nothing was stolen, and there were no serious incidents to report.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/mar\/15\/nothing-was-stolen-new-zealanders-carry-on-borrowing-from-closed-unstaffed-library\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Door security error meant one of country\u2019s largest city libraries was left open for hours, allowing hundreds to browse shelvesAs New Zealand celebrated a national holiday, one of the country\u2019s largest city libraries was closed, with staff and security &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2034,"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":[41,511,71,2575,56,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-culture","category-libraries","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\/42431","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\/2034"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42432,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42431\/revisions\/42432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}