{"id":1478,"date":"2012-03-16T14:59:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T14:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/?p=1478"},"modified":"2012-03-16T14:59:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T14:59:01","slug":"pullman-attacks-library-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-attacks-library-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman attacks library closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Pullman has again voiced his opposition to library closures, this time in a brief column in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/uk-news\/philip-pullman-were-failing-our-children-758636\">Daily Mirror<\/a>.  Pullman&#8217;s championing of the role that libraries play in introducing children to reading is again the core of his argument, with the author saying that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The most common tribute to the public library is when somebody says: &#8216;It opened up the world for me when I was a child.&#8217;  I want that sort of experience for every child.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Pullman spoke at length about the issue to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.librarycampaign.com\/philip-pullman-speech\/\">&#8216;The Library Campaign&#8217; conference<\/a> in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phillip Pullman has again voiced his opposition to library closures, this time in a brief column in the Daily Mirror. Pullman&#8217;s championing of the role that libraries play in introducing children to reading is again the core of his argument, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-attacks-library-closures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philip-pullman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1478"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1487,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1478\/revisions\/1487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}