{"id":51702,"date":"2025-08-07T09:29:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51702\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T09:29:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T09:29:10","slug":"lost-library-book-was-found-in-paris-and-returned-to-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/51702\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost library book was found in Paris and returned to Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">A book which was borrowed from a library in the UK was found abandoned on the Paris Metro before being diligently returned by a local.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">The travel guide, &#8220;Top 10 Paris,&#8221; was borrowed from Battle Library on Oxford Road in Reading earlier in the summer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">An eagle-eyed Parisienne found it on Metro Line 1 in the French capital a few weeks later and messaged the library to find out how to send it back.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Library staff have now contacted the original borrower to reassure them the book has been returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 hxuGS\">Reading Borough Council&#8217;s lead councillor for leisure and culture, Adele Barnett-Ward, said: &#8220;It&#8217;s wonderful to see how far our library books can travel, although we do prefer they come back home eventually.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A book which was borrowed from a library in the UK was found abandoned on the Paris Metro&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51703,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-51702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}