{"id":8048,"date":"2014-05-09T11:51:48","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T16:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8048"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:06","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:06","slug":"reading-in-restraint-the-last-chained-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2014\/05\/09\/reading-in-restraint-the-last-chained-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading in Restraint: The Last Chained Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/assets.atlasobscura.com\/article_images\/8426\/image\" alt=\"\" width=\"591\" height=\"591\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the Middle Ages, books were incredibly scarce, and although many wanted to share knowledge with the masses, they didn&#8217;t quite trust the public. So the chained library was born, and while most\u00c2\u00a0of these restrained reading collections have vanished, a rare few still exist, looking much as they did centuries ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/articles\/chained-libraries-of-the-world\">Reading in Restraint: The Last Chained Libraries | Atlas Obscura<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Middle Ages, books were incredibly scarce, and although many wanted to share knowledge with the masses, they didn&#8217;t quite trust the public. So the chained library was born, and while most of these restrained reading collections have vanished, a rare few still exist&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8053,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[931],"class_list":["post-8048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-chained-libraries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8048"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8051,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8048\/revisions\/8051"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}