{"id":3944,"date":"2010-06-17T12:27:02","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T19:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3944"},"modified":"2010-06-17T14:38:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-17T21:38:27","slug":"banned-book-news-roundup-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=3944","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here, fresh from the interwebs, a roundup of book banning stories and news:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_Ashx4nbGYNM\/TBdtDXXcOUI\/AAAAAAAAEK0\/kqa0a8mZtVE\/s320\/scan0072.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Guaranteed to stir up the book banners: books about <a href=\"http:\/\/harperacademic.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/banned-books-gay-lesbian-literature-in.html\">Teh Gay<\/a> in school libraries.<\/li>\n<li>What can&#8217;t you read in prison?\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/local\/authors-decry-being-locked-out-of-lockup-687481.html\">Lots, apparently<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>And maybe there are some books you <a href=\"http:\/\/matadorlife.com\/should-these-books-be-banned-censored\/\" target=\"_self\">shouldn&#8217;t be able to read in prison<\/a>, or even on the outside.<\/li>\n<li>That book-banning mom in Wisconsin is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fdlreporter.com\/article\/20100517\/FON0101\/5170327\/1985\/FONent\" target=\"_self\">still at it<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of moms, here&#8217;s another one trying the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bakonewsnetwork.com\/?p=914\">check-&#8217;em-out-but-don&#8217;t-return-&#8217;em trick<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.explorehoward.com\/opinion\/71916\/our-view-school-books\/\" target=\"_self\">Official double-talk<\/a> about why a school district is trying to ban Harry Potter books.<\/li>\n<li>Uplifting blog entry about a<a href=\"http:\/\/bigglasscases.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/perks-of-being-patient.html\" target=\"_self\"> banned book<\/a> that&#8217;s being made into a movie.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/obituaries\/robert-tralins-wrote-banned-and-bordello-books-as-well-as-stories-that\/1097642\" target=\"_self\">Best obituary<\/a> you&#8217;ll read all year: Robert Tralins, banned &amp; bordello book author.<\/li>\n<li>An oldie but a goodie: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/articles\/nations-teens-disappointed-by-banned-books,401\/\">The Onion on teenagers &amp; banned books<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Finally, from <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/\">xkcd<\/a>, a serious look at the looming threat of e-book censorship:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/book_burning.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/imgs.xkcd.com\/comics\/book_burning.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here, fresh from the interwebs, a roundup of book banning stories and news: Guaranteed to stir up the book banners: books about Teh Gay in school libraries. What can&#8217;t you read in prison?\u00a0 Lots, apparently. And maybe there are some books you shouldn&#8217;t be able to read in prison, or even on the outside. That [&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-3944","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\/3944","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=3944"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4050,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3944\/revisions\/4050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}