{"id":836,"date":"2011-01-24T16:46:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T16:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/?p=836"},"modified":"2011-01-24T20:38:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T20:38:28","slug":"pullman-speaks-out-against-library-closures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-speaks-out-against-library-closures\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman speaks out against library closures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger <a href=\"http:\/\/bookmavenmary.blogspot.com\/\">Book Maven<\/a> reports that Philip Pullman was amongst several speakers at a meeting of the Oxfordshire Anti-Cuts Alliance (OACA) last week specifically about libraries and the threat they are under. A number of libraries in Oxfordshire are to have funding withdrawn but the public are to be offered the chance to run them as volunteers; in effect they are earmarked for closure. Pullman apparently gave a corker of a speech, dealing well with a heckler and pointing out that it is the council&#8217;s duty to fight against cuts and preserve library services. He went on to say that his interest in libraries was simply through love.<\/p>\n<p>Philip Pullman will be reading at a read-in at Oxford Central Library on February 5th at 12 noon. Read all about last week&#8217;s meeting <a href=\"http:\/\/bookmavenmary.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/libraries-again-oxford-movement.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Article on this matter found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cherwell.org\/content\/11279\" target=\"_blank\">the Cherwell.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blogger Book Maven reports that Philip Pullman was amongst several speakers at a meeting of the Oxfordshire Anti-Cuts Alliance (OACA) last week specifically about libraries and the threat they are under. A number of libraries in Oxfordshire are to have &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-speaks-out-against-library-closures\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oxford","category-philip-pullman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":843,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/836\/revisions\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}