{"id":18460,"date":"2013-01-27T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2013-01-26T17:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=18460"},"modified":"2013-01-26T16:30:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-26T03:30:38","slug":"february-14-isnt-just-valentines-day-its-international-book-giving-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/01\/27\/february-14-isnt-just-valentines-day-its-international-book-giving-day\/","title":{"rendered":"February 14 Isn&#8217;t Just Valentine&#8217;s Day: It&#8217;s International Book Giving Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2013\/01\/27\/february-14-isnt-just-valentines-day-its-international-book-giving-day\/international-book-giving-day-300px-wide-copy-jpg\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-18462\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18462 alignright\" title=\"international-book-giving-day-300px-wide-copy.jpg&amp;\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/international-book-giving-day-300px-wide-copy.jpg.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/international-book-giving-day-300px-wide-copy.jpg.jpeg 226w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/international-book-giving-day-300px-wide-copy.jpg-125x150.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a>Although, come to think about it, I would regard the gift of a book as a pretty good valentine. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>But one of the blogs I subscribe to is <a href=\"http:\/\/cclblog.wordpress.com\/\">Christchurch City Libraries<\/a> and I was very interested to see their post on <a href=\"http:\/\/cclblog.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/24\/celebrate-international-book-giving-day-on-14-february\/\">International Book Giving Day<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>&#8220;February 14th is not only Valentine\u2019s Day. It is also <a title=\"International Book Giving Day\" href=\"http:\/\/bookgivingday.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #003300;\">International Book Giving Day<\/span><\/a> \u2014 a day dedicated to getting new, used, and borrowed books into the hands of as many children as possible&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The post lists three ways to get involved:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>Give a book to a friend or relative<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>Leave a book in a waiting room or lobby<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #003300;\"><em>Donate a book<\/em><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>with more detail on each option for giving, plus a couple of NZ book giving charities for children.<\/p>\n<p>Well worth a look, right here: <a href=\"http:\/\/cclblog.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/24\/celebrate-international-book-giving-day-on-14-february\/\">Celebrate International Book Giving Day on February 14<\/a> &#8212; and <em>do<\/em> consider giving a book in your community on February 14.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although, come to think about it, I would regard the gift of a book as a pretty good valentine. \ud83d\ude09 But one of the blogs I subscribe to is Christchurch City Libraries and I was very interested to see their post on International Book Giving Day: &#8220;February 14th is not only Valentine\u2019s Day. It is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funstuff","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18460"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18469,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18460\/revisions\/18469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}