{"id":49855,"date":"2025-08-07T07:54:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/49855\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T07:54:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T07:54:08","slug":"lost-library-book-was-found-in-paris-and-returned-to-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/49855\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost library book was found in Paris and returned to Reading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Library staff have now contacted the original borrower to reassure them the book has been returned.<\/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":49856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-49855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}