{"id":6529,"date":"2016-01-27T20:34:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/?p=6529"},"modified":"2016-01-27T20:34:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T18:34:22","slug":"the-un-library-announced-its-most-checked-out-book-of-2015-its-kind-of-disturbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/2016\/01\/the-un-library-announced-its-most-checked-out-book-of-2015-its-kind-of-disturbing\/","title":{"rendered":"The UN library announced its most-checked-out book of 2015. It&#8217;s kind of disturbing."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/book.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6530\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-6530\" src=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/book-197x300.jpg\" alt=\"book\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/book-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/book.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.int\/pm\/dag-hammarksj%C3%B6ld-library\">Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld Library<\/a> at the United Nations \u2014 named after the secretary general who died in 1961 \u2014 doesn&#8217;t make the news very often. Meant to be used by the professional Secretariat staff of the UN and by national delegations, it stores documents and publications from the UN and related organizations, as well as a raft of other books and materials on international relations, law, economics, and other UN-relevant topics. So, you know, a library.<\/p>\n<p>But even the UN&#8217;s library has a social media presence now, and recently it tweeted the 2015 publication that got checked out the most frequently:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2016\/1\/6\/10724560\/un-library-war-crimes\">READ MORE HERE\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dag Hammarskj\u00f6ld Library at the United Nations \u2014 named after the secretary general who died in 1961 \u2014 doesn&#8217;t make the news very often. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6530,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,85,11,88,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geography","category-human-rights","category-issues","category-slider","category-world","country-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6532,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6529\/revisions\/6532"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openasia.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}