{"id":88031,"date":"2026-04-21T09:20:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=88031"},"modified":"2026-04-21T09:20:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T09:20:40","slug":"campaigners-anger-over-1-15-library-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/21\/campaigners-anger-over-1-15-library-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaigners&#8217; anger over \u00a31.15 library charge"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/3840\/cpsprodpb\/07c3\/live\/5bb7c930-0816-11f1-8fdd-d9a354700c27.jpg\" alt=\"About a dozen people standing outside an office building. Many of them are holding signs saying &quot;STOP ESSEX LIBRARY CUTS&quot; in white lettering on a black background. In front of them is a white and green banner that says: &quot;Stop County Council cuts - KEEP ALL OUR LIBRARIES OPEN! Save Our Libraries Essex.&quot;\" width=\"599\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">A campaign group aiming to stop a new library charge from being introduced said people&#8217;s &#8220;viral&#8221; response to its petition showed &#8220;the anger felt&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cvg0991xegyo\">Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A campaign group aiming to stop a new library charge from being introduced said people&#8217;s &#8220;viral&#8221; response to its petition showed &#8220;the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":64042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-88031","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/old-books.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88032,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88031\/revisions\/88032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}