{"id":289,"date":"2008-06-13T12:50:26","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T17:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/289"},"modified":"2008-06-13T13:45:31","modified_gmt":"2008-06-13T18:45:31","slug":"book-rentals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/289","title":{"rendered":"Book &#8216;Rentals&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, it&#8217;s Friday and I have to share this.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/failbook.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/failbook.jpg\" width=\"600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">The text reads:<\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">book rental service?<\/p>\n<p class=\"small\">was just thinking. my sister does -alot- of reading, and spends like $1000 a year on just books alone. most of them she reads once then never looks at again. is there any kind of like\u2026video rental store but for books? would make things alot cheaper, plus once one person had read one the next person can get enjoyment from it etc<\/p>\n<p>Now, I may be slightly biased because I am a librarian, but <strong>COME ON<\/strong>. Seriously people, I would hope that even non-library users at least <strong>KNOW<\/strong> that we exist!<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, the other users let this person have it in the <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.overclockers.com.au\/showthread.php?t=648654\">discussion forum thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>source: <a href=\"http:\/\/failblog.org\/2008\/06\/04\/book-rental-fail\/\">Book Rental Fail<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/failblog.org\">failblog.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alright, it&#8217;s Friday and I have to share this. The text reads: book rental service? was just thinking. my sister does -alot- of reading, and spends like $1000 a year on just books alone. most of them she reads once &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/289\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}