{"id":52326,"date":"2013-05-14T17:00:37","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=52326"},"modified":"2013-05-14T17:19:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T21:19:29","slug":"in-chains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/05\/14\/in-chains\/","title":{"rendered":"In Chains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/chainedlibrary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-52327\" alt=\"chainedlibrary\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/chainedlibrary.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/chainedlibrary.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/chainedlibrary-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI took <a href=\"http:\/\/erikkwakkel.tumblr.com\/post\/49509415868\/the-chained-library-of-zutphen-i-took-these\" target=\"_blank\">these pictures<\/a> during a visit to the 16th-century chained library of Zutphen, in the east of the Netherlands,\u201d writes <a href=\"http:\/\/erikkwakkel.tumblr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Erik Kwakkel<\/a>.\u00a0\u201cIt is one of three such libraries still in existence in Europe. Nothing much has changed here for 550 years.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI took these pictures during a visit to the 16th-century chained library of Zutphen, in the east of the Netherlands,\u201d writes Erik Kwakkel.\u00a0\u201cIt is one of three such libraries still in existence in Europe. Nothing much has changed here for 550 years.\u201d\u00a0 &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":178,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2384],"tags":[10888,10889,400,10890],"class_list":["post-52326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-look","tag-chained-library","tag-erik-kwakkel","tag-netherlands","tag-zutphen"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>In Chains by Sadie Stein<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"May 14, 2013 \u2013 \u201cI took these pictures during a visit to the 16th-century chained library of Zutphen, in the east of the Netherlands,\u201d writes Erik Kwakkel.\u00a0\u201cIt is one of\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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