{"id":8127,"date":"2012-03-12T11:52:56","date_gmt":"2012-03-12T10:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8127"},"modified":"2012-03-12T11:52:56","modified_gmt":"2012-03-12T10:52:56","slug":"would-you-risk-your-life-for-a-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8127","title":{"rendered":"Would you risk your life for a book?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have only just got round to watching my recording of a programme broadcast by BBC4 a few weeks ago about how a group of people in Sarajevo managed to save a priceless library collection during the siege of 1992-1996. The\u00a0Gazi Husrav Beg Library was founded in 1537 and held over 10,000 historic works detailing the history of Bosnia.<\/p>\n<p>If you want a quick look at 12 pictures which illustrate this story, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/gallery\/2012\/feb\/20\/library-sarajevo-in-pictures\">here<\/a>. If you have time to view the full one-hour programme, go <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7aKiyF47yQk\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I feel especially moved by this remarkable story, not just because I love books so much, but because a few years ago I visited Sarajevo with my sister [you can read my account <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Sarajevo.html\">here<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have only just got round to watching my recording of a programme broadcast by BBC4 a few weeks ago about how a group of people in Sarajevo managed to save a priceless library collection during the siege of 1992-1996. The\u00a0Gazi Husrav Beg Library was founded in 1537 and held over 10,000 historic works detailing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8134,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions\/8134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}