{"id":5781,"date":"2021-02-12T17:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T22:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=5781"},"modified":"2021-02-12T17:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-12T22:00:15","slug":"library-book-returned-72-years-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=5781","title":{"rendered":"Library Book Returned 72 Years Late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Charissa Roberson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A man recently returned a library book 72 years overdue to the Amagansett Free Library in New York. The book, \u201cGreat Heart: the Life Story of Benjamin Franklin\u201d by Daniel Henderson, was due back on April 5, 1949. A Mattituck man named John Moss discovered the volume in one of his storage crates. He said he isn\u2019t sure how the book, a first edition from 1919 with the original library bookplate, ended up in his possession. Good thing Amagansett Free Library has gotten rid of late fees \u2013 based on the 1949 penny-a-day penalty, the fine for this overdue book would have amounted to 262 dollars!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Charissa Roberson A man recently returned a library book 72 years overdue to the Amagansett Free Library in New York. The book, \u201cGreat Heart: the Life Story of Benjamin Franklin\u201d by Daniel Henderson, was due back on April 5, 1949. A Mattituck man named John Moss discovered the volume in one of his&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-5781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-summer2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5781\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}