{"id":242,"date":"2018-10-08T13:07:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T11:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/?p=242"},"modified":"2019-01-14T21:16:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T19:16:21","slug":"meeting-authors-at-the-neighbourhood-library-another-good-municipal-service-in-finland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Meeting authors at the neighbourhood library &#8211; another good municipal service in Finland"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Esko_Sepp\u00e4nen_1s-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Esko_Sepp\u00e4nen_1s-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Esko_Sepp\u00e4nen_1s-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Esko_Sepp\u00e4nen_1s-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Esko_Sepp\u00e4nen_1s.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>My neighbour Esko Sepp\u00e4nen, Finnish politician and author, at a neighbourhood meeting in our local municipal library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back from the local library where my friend and neighbour Esko Sepp\u00e4nen told us about his recent book which is a critical review over how Finland and its relations with the outside world have changed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> The experienced Finnish journalist, member of Parliament and long-time EU-parliamentarian paints a broad and sometimes disturbing picture of  how the growing inequalities have influenced both society and international relations. Much of his reasoning deals with the negative influence of a finance sector which is increasingly detached from the real economy. His views stretch far outside Finland itself, to the country&#8217;s European and global connections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Even if there are many things where I disagree, there is much substance that gives reason to think about where we are going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Our small library in my Helsinki village Pit\u00e4j\u00e4nm\u00e4ki is an important cultural hub for our residents. The very much advanced and of course free for all library institution is one of the highly valued things that Finland offers its residents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back from the local library where my friend and neighbour Esko Sepp\u00e4nen told us about his recent book which is a critical review over how Finland and its relations with the outside world have changed. The experienced Finnish journalist, member of Parliament and long-time EU-parliamentarian paints a broad and sometimes disturbing picture of how the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/?p=242\" class=\"more-link\">Jatka lukemista<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8221;Meeting authors at the neighbourhood library &#8211; another good municipal service in Finland&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[14,16,17],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-english","tag-finland","tag-helsinki","tag-pitajanmaki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.janfurstenborg.fi\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}