{"id":93,"date":"2012-03-03T12:39:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-03T10:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=93"},"modified":"2013-05-02T14:24:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T11:24:03","slug":"ancient-alexandria-library-my-story-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/ancient-alexandria-library-my-story-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Alexandria Library-my story, part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">A note from Haruki Murakami<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h3>It was my last week in Kyoto, August 2011.<\/h3>\n<h3>Sensei recommended me to visit Murin\u2013an\u2019s garden, she told me her older son who is an architect, was in charge of some renovations in the building.<\/h3>\n<h3>I took it as a personal gift.<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/nona-orbach-Murin-an-2011.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-774\" title=\"nona orbach Murin-an, 2011\" src=\"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/nona-orbach-Murin-an-2011-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/nona-orbach-Murin-an-2011-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/nona-orbach-Murin-an-2011-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/nona-orbach-Murin-an-2011.jpg 1346w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<h3>After strolling for a few hours, I decided to rest in the air-conditioned International Community House. Electricity is being exceedingly saved in the summer of 2011.<\/h3>\n<h3>I drink green tea with vanilla ice cream &#8211; a perfect blend of cultures. A Japanese woman bowing and practices her English with me.<\/h3>\n<h3>I fear the heat outside; the library is closed, and so I stroll around and read the notes on the Information Wall.<\/h3>\n<h3>Then, something trucks me! I cannot believe my eyes; what is this message doing here?!<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=402\">My heart and head are occupied with Alexandria&#8217;s library for years<\/a>, and I find such a note here in Kyoto?!<\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/nona-orbach-Alexandria-library-for-sale-s..jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-778\" title=\"nona orbach Alexandria library for sale s.\" src=\"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/nona-orbach-Alexandria-library-for-sale-s.-767x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"737\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/nona-orbach-Alexandria-library-for-sale-s.-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/nona-orbach-Alexandria-library-for-sale-s.-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/nona-orbach-Alexandria-library-for-sale-s..jpg 850w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=402\"> Ancient Alexandria Library \u2013 my story, part 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/\/?p=781\">Ancient Alexandria Library-my story, part 3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A note from Haruki Murakami It was my last week in Kyoto, August 2011. Sensei recommended me to visit Murin\u2013an\u2019s garden, she told me her older son who is an architect, was in charge of some renovations in the building. I took it as a personal gift. After strolling for a few hours, I decided [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1,89,204,569,85],"tags":[46,77,215,80,716,40,214,216,714],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nonaorbach.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}