{"id":4052,"date":"2010-07-25T15:34:17","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T22:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4052"},"modified":"2010-07-25T15:47:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T22:47:45","slug":"banned-book-news-roundup-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=4052","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Toni Morrison is under the gun again, <a href=\"http:\/\/ncacblog.wordpress.com\/2010\/06\/18\/indiana-school-board-to-review-toni-morrisons-song-of-solomon\/\" target=\"_blank\">this time in Indiana<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No way!  Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys were once <a href=\"http:\/\/www.booktryst.com\/2010\/06\/nancy-drew-gets-her-due-zombies-beg-to.html\" target=\"_blank\">banned from American libraries<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/rlv.zcache.com\/read_banned_books_poster-p228917984201913751t5ta_400.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>State senators in Delaware want <a href=\"http:\/\/www.delawareliberal.net\/2010\/06\/23\/the-delaware-book-burning-mobile-returns\/\" target=\"_blank\">schools to notify parents 48 hours prior to any book being used in the classroom<\/a>, so that parents can pull kids from school during those times.\u00a0 Really dangerous books like <em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking of <em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>, here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/answer-sheet\/literature\/why-mockingbird-has-been-chall.html\" target=\"_blank\">50-year summary<\/a> of attempts to keep kids from reading it.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bastard Out of Carolina<\/em> not only banned, teachers can&#8217;t even <a href=\"http:\/\/thetvrealist.com\/gossip\/Novel-cant-be-discussed-in-class-Fremont-school-board-rules-2935787.html\" target=\"_blank\">utter the title<\/a>.\u00a0 At least one teacher is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lipstickalley.com\/f50\/nc-teacher-pushes-students-read-banned-books-242253\/\" target=\"_blank\">fighting back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, Florida moms!\u00a0 This one wants <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsherald.com\/news\/son-85198-book-therapy.html\" target=\"_blank\">manga banned from public library<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2010\/07\/14\/apple-censorship-from-the_n_645142.html\" target=\"_blank\">e-censorship from Apple<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikecarey48.com\/2010\/07\/obscenity-ulysses-pt-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Interesting thoughts<\/a> on censorship in general and <em>Ulysses<\/em> in particular, written by a conservative blogger.<\/p>\n<p>When I was a 14 I carried around a worn copy of <em>On the Road<\/em>.\u00a0 Good thing I didn&#8217;t <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irrawaddy.org\/article.php?art_id=19013&amp;Submit=Submit\" target=\"_blank\">live in Burma<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toni Morrison is under the gun again, this time in Indiana. No way! Nancy Drew and the Hardy Boys were once banned from American libraries? State senators in Delaware want schools to notify parents 48 hours prior to any book being used in the classroom, so that parents can pull kids from school during those [&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-4052","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\/4052","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=4052"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4189,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4052\/revisions\/4189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}