{"id":11062,"date":"2012-10-05T09:56:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T16:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=11062"},"modified":"2012-10-05T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T16:56:06","slug":"things-to-ban-instead-of-commonly-banned-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=11062","title":{"rendered":"Things to Ban Instead of Commonly Banned Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t often copy from other blogs, but IMHO The Hairpin scored major points here and I feel the need to blockquote a couple of samples:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Commonly Banned:<\/strong> <em>The Catcher in the Rye<\/em>, by J.D. Salinger.<br \/>\n<strong>Ban Instead:<\/strong> Explanations of why\u00a0<em>The Catcher in the Rye<\/em> is overrated\u00a0to people who&#8217;ve just said that it&#8217;s meaningful to them; attempts\u00a0to talk people out of liking books that they like, in general.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Commonly Banned:<\/strong> <em>The Hunger Games<\/em>, by Suzanne Collins.<br \/>\n<strong>Ban Instead:<\/strong> Eye-rolling at me when I shout \u201cI volunteer!\u201d to do\u00a0household chores, or give the three-fingered District 12 sign of respect\u00a0to the security cameras at Forever 21. I\u2019m not just a pawn in their\u00a0Games, guys.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant. <a href=\"http:\/\/thehairpin.com\/2012\/10\/things-to-ban-instead-of-commonly-banned-books\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole thing<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t often copy from other blogs, but IMHO The Hairpin scored major points here and I feel the need to blockquote a couple of samples: Commonly Banned: The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger. Ban Instead: Explanations of why\u00a0The Catcher in the Rye is overrated\u00a0to people who&#8217;ve just said that it&#8217;s meaningful to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[280],"class_list":["post-11062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banned-books","tag-banned-books-week"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11063,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions\/11063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}