{"id":10751,"date":"2018-05-02T09:08:31","date_gmt":"2018-05-02T13:08:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10751"},"modified":"2018-05-02T09:08:31","modified_gmt":"2018-05-02T13:08:31","slug":"hernandos-once-great-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10751","title":{"rendered":"Hernando&#8217;s Once Great Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Like the hierophants of search-engineering, Hernando wanted readers to have an infinitely searchable database \u2018that would allow people to wander in places they did not know, perhaps had not even dreamed existed\u2019. Like him, the webmasters have failed to give us that degree of liberation: cyber ghettoes prevail. \u2018We are in danger of hemming ourselves into ever smaller enclaves, increasingly oblivious to the infinite \u2026 worlds that we simply no longer see.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hernando Col\u00f3n, son of Christopher Columbus, gave us the story of his father&#8217;s great adventures, making much of the man and little of the missteps. He built a library with the intention of housing everything long before Ripley tried his hand at a tawdry version of it. The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sevillaciudad.sevilla.abc.es\/reportajes\/casco-antiguo\/cultura-casco-antiguo\/la-biblioteca-colombina-de-la-calle-goles-la-catedral\/\">Biblioteca Colombina<\/a>\u00a0(pictures) has been a marvel in the past but only about 4,000 of the original 15,000 items remain.\u00a0 Felipe Fern\u00e1ndez-Armesto paints a picture of it in his<a href=\"https:\/\/literaryreview.co.uk\/a-voyage-round-his-father\"> review of Edward Wilson-Lee&#8217;s Harnando biography<\/a>. (via Prufrock News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like the hierophants of search-engineering, Hernando wanted readers to have an infinitely searchable database \u2018that would allow people to wander in places they did not know, perhaps had not even dreamed existed\u2019. Like him, the webmasters have failed to give us that degree of liberation: cyber ghettoes prevail. \u2018We are in danger of hemming ourselves &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/?p=10751\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hernando&#8217;s Once Great Library<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[557,1660],"class_list":["post-10751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction","tag-columbus","tag-libraries"],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandywinebooks.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}