{"id":25289,"date":"2026-05-27T15:41:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T13:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leeuwardencityofliterature.nl\/?p=25289"},"modified":"2026-05-29T09:57:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:57:58","slug":"this-was-page-against-the-machine-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leeuwardencityofliterature.nl\/en\/this-was-page-against-the-machine-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"This was Page Against the Machine 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Saturday 23 May, a new edition of Page Against the Machine took place: a Silent Book Club in the open air. Plenty of reading was done in the new park next to Campus Frysl\u00e2n, on the Willemskade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a lovely sight: visitors on their own chairs, on beanbags from Tresoar and on deckchairs from CoL. Phones went off, books went open. 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