{"id":3733,"date":"2010-03-19T12:40:43","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T19:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3733"},"modified":"2010-03-19T12:40:43","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T19:40:43","slug":"banned-book-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3733","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book News"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 449px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/atom.smasher.org\/wof\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/images\/read banned books.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"449\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image courtesy Atom Smasher<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I recently set up a news feed to follow reports of book banning,  challenges, and censorship.\u00a0 This is a roundup  of current book banning news from the USA:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Good news for kids who&#8217;ve been missing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5gKspWxD-0H2ChI3DWXfAs-WZIR8AD9EGQBB83\" target=\"_blank\">Captain Underpants<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Why they&#8217;re still freaking over <a href=\"http:\/\/crosscut.com\/2010\/03\/19\/books\/19669\/\" target=\"_blank\">Catcher in the Rye<\/a><\/li>\n<li>RIP <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sltrib.com\/news\/ci_14680847\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Roberts<\/a>, a champion of banned books<\/li>\n<li>Come on, you know you <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theliterarygiftcompany.com\/banned-books-bracelet-12-p.asp\" target=\"_blank\">want it<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Infamous suppressed <a href=\"http:\/\/openmaterials.org\/2010\/03\/18\/banned-the-golden-book-of-chemistry-experiments\/\" target=\"_blank\">kids&#8217; chemistry do-it-yourself book<\/a> now in the public domain (and downloadable)<\/li>\n<li>Protecting the place of (some) white Christian men in American history . . . thanks, <a href=\"http:\/\/trueslant.com\/allisonkilkenny\/2010\/03\/19\/texas-whitewashing-is-latest-stage-of-textbook-wars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Board of Education<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Two more links on the Texas school textbook fiasco: <a href=\"http:\/\/hiphopandpolitics.wordpress.com\/2010\/03\/17\/texas-text-book-drama-how-the-community-is-fighting-back\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/monarc143.blogspot.com\/2010\/03\/farewell-founding-father.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently set up a news feed to follow reports of book banning, challenges, and censorship.\u00a0 This is a roundup of current book banning news from the USA: Good news for kids who&#8217;ve been missing Captain Underpants Why they&#8217;re still freaking over Catcher in the Rye RIP Bruce Roberts, a champion of banned books Come [&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":[],"class_list":["post-3733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banned-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733","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=3733"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3737,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3733\/revisions\/3737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}