{"id":196,"date":"2007-05-21T11:17:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T15:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worksforfood.com\/read\/2007\/05\/21\/banned-from-the-library\/"},"modified":"2009-10-17T23:54:37","modified_gmt":"2009-10-18T03:54:37","slug":"banned-from-the-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/2007\/05\/21\/banned-from-the-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned from the library!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a personal first for me, today I was informed that I am banned from a library&#8212;the Lingnan University one.<\/p>\n<p>My crime?  I foolishly completed some of the clearance paperwork for exchange students, including a certification that I have neither loans nor fines outstanding from the Lingnan library.  According to the wisdom of Lingnan bureaucracy, this means that I&#8217;m done with the library and should be denied physical access to it for the remaining, oh, two days of the term.  Amazing, especially since I&#8217;d just donated a couple items (unaware that I was already dead to the library).  &#8220;You cannot use our library anymore.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I took the hint (after mild fussing and getting the standard &#8220;just following unwritten rules without a smidgen of critical thought&#8221; excuse).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a personal first for me, today I was informed that I am banned from a library&#8212;the Lingnan University one. My crime? I foolishly completed some of the clearance paperwork for exchange students, including a certification that I have neither loans nor fines outstanding from the Lingnan library. According to the wisdom of Lingnan bureaucracy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[68],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hong-kong","tag-lingnan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions\/399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielharr.is\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}