{"id":672,"date":"2008-10-20T15:47:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T14:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=672"},"modified":"2008-10-20T15:47:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T14:47:16","slug":"one-man-and-his-donkeys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=672","title":{"rendered":"One man and his donkeys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a very long way to catch up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2008\/10\/20\/america\/colombia.php\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Soriano<\/a>, who brings his mobile library from village to village in Colombia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I started out with 70 books, and now I have a collection of more than 4,800,&#8221; said Soriano, 36, a primary school teacher who lives in a small house here with his wife and three children, with books piled to the\u00a0ceilings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This began as a necessity, then it became an obligation, and after that a custom,&#8221; he explained, squinting at the hills undulating into the horizon. &#8220;Now,&#8221; he said, &#8220;it is an\u00a0institution.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t quite got to the &#8220;piled to the ceilings&#8221; point, although I do have a few hundred books scattered about the place and in some interesting, if impractical for use, stacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a very long way to catch up with Luis Soriano, who brings his mobile library from village to village in Colombia. &#8220;I started out with 70 books, and now I have a collection of more than 4,800,&#8221; said Soriano, 36, a primary school teacher who lives in a small house here with his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,28],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}