{"id":8855,"date":"2019-06-04T09:05:35","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T13:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=8855"},"modified":"2019-06-05T11:39:42","modified_gmt":"2019-06-05T15:39:42","slug":"yeah-i-heard-someone-returned-a-book-they-forgot-after-like-30-plus-years-and-paid-the-fine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/06\/04\/yeah-i-heard-someone-returned-a-book-they-forgot-after-like-30-plus-years-and-paid-the-fine\/","title":{"rendered":"Yeah, I heard someone returned a book they forgot after like 30 plus years and paid the fine."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"273\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/AW050419-3.jpg\" alt=\"Yeah, I heard someone returned a book they forgot after like 30 plus years and paid the fine.\" class=\"wp-image-8854\"\/><figcaption>Yeah, I heard someone returned a book they forgot after like 30 plus years and paid the fine.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>That&#8217;s a pretty common urban legend about egregiously overdue books. They typically don&#8217;t keep accruing fines for years and years. That legend was most famously explored in the 3rd season of Seinfeld when Jerry has a library fine from 1971. In fact, most libraries stop keeping track after a while, consider the book lost, and buy a replacement. BC Libraries charges no more then $100 in the case that someone never returns a book (see <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/BCLibraryFines\">bit.ly\/BCLibraryFines<\/a> for more detail). Of course, some materials are irreplaceable: in those cases, the material is usually in an archive and not allowed to leave the building or a special reading room for exactly that reason.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s a pretty common urban legend about egregiously overdue books. They typically don&#8217;t keep accruing fines for years and years. That legend was most famously explored in the 3rd season of Seinfeld when Jerry has a library fine from 1971. In fact, most libraries stop keeping track after a while, consider the book lost, and &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/06\/04\/yeah-i-heard-someone-returned-a-book-they-forgot-after-like-30-plus-years-and-paid-the-fine\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Yeah, I heard someone returned a book they forgot after like 30 plus years and paid the fine.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8855"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8865,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8855\/revisions\/8865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}