{"id":3279,"date":"2016-04-29T06:50:19","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T22:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/29\/an-apologetic-customer-finally-returned-library-book-due-in-1948\/"},"modified":"2016-04-29T06:50:19","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T22:50:19","slug":"an-apologetic-customer-finally-returned-library-book-due-in-1948","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/04\/29\/an-apologetic-customer-finally-returned-library-book-due-in-1948\/","title":{"rendered":"An 'apologetic customer' finally returned library book due in 1948"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Better late than never.<\/p>\n

The Auckland Public Library in New Zealand shared a photo on Wednesday of a book that was finally returned, 67 years after its due date. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The book, Myths and Legends of Maoriland<\/i> by author A.W Reed was supposed to be returned to the Epsom Library on December 17, 1948.\u00a0<\/p>\n

However, the library says that the woman, who was just a kid when she borrowed the book, moved out of Auckland and accidentally took the it with her. \u00af_(\u30c4)_\/\u00af<\/p>\n

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The book was actually in good condition, so the library decided to waive the late fees.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“We were just stoked to have the book back and hear such a cool story,” the library wrote on Facebook<\/a>.\u00a0 Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

More about Book<\/a>, Overdue<\/a>, Library<\/a>, and Watercooler<\/a>\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Better late than never. The Auckland Public Library in New Zealand shared a photo on Wednesday of a book that was finally returned, 67 years after its due date. \u00a0\u00a0 The book, Myths and Legends of Maoriland by author A.W … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2547,2549,2548,735],"class_list":["post-3279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-book","tag-library","tag-overdue","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}