{"id":3905,"date":"2010-05-12T09:57:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-12T16:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2010-05-12T10:03:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-12T17:03:54","slug":"banned-book-news-roundup-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3905","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another roundup of banned book news:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/schriftman.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/08\/book-burning.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>First, some small victories:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Washington state library board <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/ozwash\/46772872.html\" target=\"_blank\">stands up to censors<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Wisconsin mother who challenged school library books <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fdlreporter.com\/article\/20100413\/FON0101\/4130403\/1985\" target=\"_blank\">overruled by board of education<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Graphic novel Bone <a href=\"http:\/\/cbldf.org\/homepage\/bone-survives-school-library-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">survives school library challenge<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Still, there are miles to go before we sleep:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mom checks out teen books, <a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.sun-sentinel.com\/news\/specials\/weirdflorida\/blog\/2010\/05\/mom_checked_out_racy_teen_book.html\" target=\"_blank\">keeps them to prevent kids from reading them<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Mom gets her 15 minutes of fame, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orlandosentinel.com\/news\/local\/breakingnews\/os-gossip-girl-books-returned-20100506,0,7641285.story\" target=\"_blank\">takes the books back<\/a><\/li>\n<li>School library\/curriculum book censorship <a href=\"http:\/\/ozarksfirst.com\/search-fulltext?&amp;nxd_id=259175\" target=\"_blank\">alive &amp; well in the Ozarks<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Childrens&#8217; book author Dan Gutman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoollibraryjournal.com\/article\/CA6727274.html?industryid=47055\" target=\"_blank\">discusses censorship attempts and what to do about them<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Cool graphic depiction of our <a href=\"http:\/\/awesome.good.is\/transparency\/web\/1005\/targeted-books\/flash.html\" target=\"_blank\">most targeted books<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.avclub.com\/articles\/parents-still-hate-the-catcher-in-the-rye-those-go,40144\/?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=feeds&amp;utm_source=type_hater\" target=\"_blank\">Complaining about nudity in a novel that contains no pictures is like  complaining about there being too much sound in a sandwich<\/a><\/li>\n<li>iBooks&#8217; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2010\/04\/04\/ibooks-censortron-do.html\" target=\"_blank\">word filter<\/a> rejects &#8220;sperm&#8221;; Moby Dick rams Pequod in protest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another roundup of banned book news: First, some small victories: Washington state library board stands up to censors Wisconsin mother who challenged school library books overruled by board of education Graphic novel Bone survives school library challenge Still, there are miles to go before we sleep: Mom checks out teen books, keeps them 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":[],"class_list":["post-3905","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\/3905","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=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3939,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions\/3939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}