{"id":5238,"date":"2011-02-06T08:46:14","date_gmt":"2011-02-06T15:46:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=5238"},"modified":"2011-02-06T08:46:14","modified_gmt":"2011-02-06T15:46:14","slug":"banned-books-news-roundup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=5238","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books News Roundup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"109\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5393\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 109px;\" title=\"sphinx-thmb\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/sphinx-thmb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>A small <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcpalm.com\/news\/2011\/jan\/15\/eve-samples-the-catcher-in-the-rye-wont-be-from\/\" target=\"_blank\">victory in Florida<\/a>.\u00a0 Another <a href=\"http:\/\/helenair.com\/news\/article_02cc1a9a-2f66-11e0-a93b-001cc4c03286.html\" target=\"_blank\">victory in Montana<\/a>.\u00a0 Yet another <a href=\"http:\/\/capcityliberty.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/breaking-news-belleville-school-board.html\" target=\"_blank\">victory in Wisconsin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But the book-banners <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfox8.com\/news\/wghp-story-hoops-110120,0,427494.story\" target=\"_blank\">never stop trying<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Parents in Richland, Washington, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebookbuzz.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">review books on high school reading lists<\/a> by counting swear words, ignoring literary merit.\u00a0 Click on Book Index, scroll down, and click on their review of <em>A Prayer for Owen Meany<\/em> . . . one example among many of people totally missing the point!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trentonian.com\/articles\/2011\/01\/16\/opinion\/doc4d33c1e98592d649565213.txt\" target=\"_blank\">interesting blast<\/a> at the American Library Association.<\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a professor&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/loom\/2009\/11\/30\/the-index-of-banned-words-the-continually-updated-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\">list of words banned from student essays<\/a>.\u00a0 Actually, in this case I wholeheartedly approve!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/dire-straits-money-for-nothing-banned-in-canada-20110114\" target=\"_blank\">Oh, Canada<\/a>. . . .<\/p>\n<p>Banning books isn&#8217;t just about prudery.\u00a0 It&#8217;s also part of a concerted effort by the right to <a href=\"http:\/\/ala.org\/ala\/newspresscenter\/news\/pr.cfm?id=6211\" target=\"_blank\">politicize our public libraries<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One hundred years ago: Birmingham, Alabama Sunday school teachers <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.al.com\/live\/2011\/02\/today_in_history_sunday_school.html\" target=\"_blank\">ban <em>Little Red Riding Hood<\/em> and <em>Uncle Remus<\/em><\/a>, stories where &#8220;cunning and deceit always triumph.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A small victory in Florida.\u00a0 Another victory in Montana.\u00a0 Yet another victory in Wisconsin. But the book-banners never stop trying. Parents in Richland, Washington, review books on high school reading lists by counting swear words, ignoring literary merit.\u00a0 Click on Book Index, scroll down, and click on their review of A Prayer for Owen Meany [&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-5238","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\/5238","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=5238"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5398,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5238\/revisions\/5398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}