{"id":1898,"date":"2023-04-06T18:29:12","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T18:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/manchester-book-swap-vending-machine-a-hit-with-readers\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T18:29:12","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T18:29:12","slug":"manchester-book-swap-vending-machine-a-hit-with-readers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/manchester-book-swap-vending-machine-a-hit-with-readers\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester book swap vending machine a hit with readers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A vending machine allowing people to swap books for free is proving popular with readers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">More than 600 books have been swapped so far in the new scheme in Manchester&#8217;s Corn Exchange, marketing manager Alison Hogarth said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">She said it gives people the opportunity to read something they might not normally pick.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Why not follow BBC North West on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/en-gb.facebook.com\/BBCNW\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Facebook<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNWT\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Twitter<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\"> and <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcnorthwest\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Instagram<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">? You can also send story ideas to <\/i>northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-manchester-65187793?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vending machine allowing people to swap books for free is proving popular with readers. More than 600 books have been swapped so far in the new scheme in Manchester&#8217;s Corn Exchange, marketing manager Alison Hogarth said. She said it gives people the opportunity to read something they might not normally pick. Why not follow [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[178,129,1312,1309,1313,1310,1311],"class_list":["post-1898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-book","tag-hit","tag-machine","tag-manchester","tag-readers","tag-swap","tag-vending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1898\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}