{"id":92,"date":"2005-09-28T14:21:28","date_gmt":"2005-09-28T21:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=92"},"modified":"2009-12-01T13:40:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-01T20:40:51","slug":"banned-books-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/oif\/bannedbooksweek\/bannedbooksweek.htm\">which<\/a>, I challenge you to list which of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/oif\/bannedbooksweek\/bbwlinks\/100mostfrequently.htm\">American Library Association&#8217;s 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books<\/a> you&#8217;ve read.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll start.\u00a0 Here are the ones I&#8217;ve read:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li>Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck<\/li>\n<li>Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling<\/li>\n<li>The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger<\/li>\n<li>In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak<\/li>\n<li>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale by Margaret Atwood<\/li>\n<li>To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee<\/li>\n<li>A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein<\/li>\n<li>Brave New World by Aldous Huxley<\/li>\n<li>Cujo by Stephen King<\/li>\n<li>The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell<\/li>\n<li>Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut<\/li>\n<li>Lord of the Flies by William Golding<\/li>\n<li>Native Son by Richard Wright<\/li>\n<li>Carrie by Stephen King<\/li>\n<li>The Dead Zone by Stephen King<\/li>\n<li>The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li>Where&#8217;s Waldo? by Martin Hanford<\/li>\n<li>Little Black Sambo by Helen Bannerman<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Okay, over to you. But first, three questions: One, why would anyone get upset with Where&#8217;s Waldo? Two*, why would I, a grown man, admit to having read a Where&#8217;s Waldo book? Three, where are the Bible, the Koran, the Talmud? Those books have caused more trouble, suffering, and misery than all 100 &#8220;most frequently challenged books&#8221; put together.<\/p>\n<p>*Answer to question # 2: to show you I&#8217;m being honest with you . . .<\/p>\n<p>Credit where credit&#8217;s due: got the idea from Kevin Drum at <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2005_09\/007213.php\">Washington Monthly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?cat=47\"><br \/>\n<em>Read more banned book reviews and posts.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of which, I challenge you to list which of the American Library Association&#8217;s 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books you&#8217;ve read. I&#8217;ll start.\u00a0 Here are the ones I&#8217;ve read: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck Harry Potter (Series) by J.K. Rowling The Catcher in the [&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":[46,48],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banned-books","tag-books","tag-censorship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","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=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3273,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}