{"id":35,"date":"2008-03-12T09:11:04","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T08:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=35"},"modified":"2008-03-27T09:12:52","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T08:12:52","slug":"2000-philip-larkin-letters-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/?p=35","title":{"rendered":"2,000 Philip Larkin letters uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hull academics are eagerly examining letters written by Philip Larkin, once the university&#8217;s librarian, Chris Arnot reports in <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,,2264141,00.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a>. Already reeling from the discovery that the &#8217;eminent librarian had stolen one book from a library in Coventry and another from Blackwells in Oxford,&#8217; I wonder what else they will reveal. &#8216;Well,&#8217; as he says in &#8216;The Old Fools&#8217; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?path=ASIN\/0571114512&amp;link_code=as2&amp;camp=1634&amp;tag=literaryconne-21&amp;creative=6738\" target=\"_blank\">High Windows<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.co.uk\/e\/ir?t=literaryconne-21&amp;l=as2&amp;o=2&amp;a=0571114512\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/>, &#8216;We shall find out.&#8217; More about Philip Larkin on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.literaryconnections.co.uk\/resources\/larkin.html\">this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Larkin the letter writer and book stealer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.literaryconnections.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}