{"id":845,"date":"2011-01-27T21:39:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T21:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/?p=845"},"modified":"2011-01-27T21:47:26","modified_gmt":"2011-01-27T21:47:26","slug":"enthusiastic-reception-for-pullmans-library-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/enthusiastic-reception-for-pullmans-library-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Enthusiastic reception for Pullman&#8217;s library speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Pullman&#8217;s January 20 speech defending public libraries against government cuts (first reported on BridgetotheStars <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-speaks-out-against-library-closures\/\">here<\/a> has met with a rousing reception online. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2011\/jan\/27\/philip-pullman-defend-libraries-web\"> An article<\/a> published in <em>The Guardian<\/em> today notes that an online version of the speech has been read 20,000 times in the past two days.<\/p>\n<p>News was spread mainly via Twitter and other social media, with comments on <em>The Guardian<\/em>&#8216;s article and <a href=\"http:\/\/falseeconomy.org.uk\/blog\/save-oxfordshire-libraries-speech-philip-pullman\">the posted speech<\/a> being mainly supportive and positive.<\/p>\n<p>A French translation of the speech can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cittagazze.com\/article.php?id=172\">here<\/a> at Citt\u00c3\u00a0gazze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Philip Pullman&#8217;s January 20 speech defending public libraries against government cuts (first reported on BridgetotheStars here has met with a rousing reception online. An article published in The Guardian today notes that an online version of the speech has been &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/enthusiastic-reception-for-pullmans-library-speech\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","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\/845","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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":847,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}