{"id":1221,"date":"2014-09-22T13:32:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T17:32:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/?p=1221"},"modified":"2014-09-22T13:32:38","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T17:32:38","slug":"banned-books-week-september-21-27-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/?p=1221","title":{"rendered":"BANNED BOOKS WEEK! September 21 &#8211; 27, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1222\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-BBW-image-for-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1222\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1222\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-BBW-image-for-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Read Banned Books! Artwork courtesy of the American Library Association\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-BBW-image-for-blog.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2014-BBW-image-for-blog-150x125.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Read Banned Books! Artwork courtesy of the American Library Association<\/p><\/div>\n<p><center><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><\/p>\n<h1>\nIt&#8217;s time to Celebrate Your Freedom to READ!!!<\/h1>\n<p><\/span><\/center>According to the Office for Intellectual Freedom, there were 307 challenges to books reported in 2013. Here are the top 10:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Captain Underpants<\/strong> (series), by Dav PilkeyReasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group, violence<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Bluest Eye<\/strong>, by Toni MorrisonReasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group, violence<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/strong>, by Sherman AlexieReasons: Drugs\/alcohol\/smoking, offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group<\/li>\n<li><strong>Fifty Shades of Grey<\/strong>, by E.L. JamesReasons: Nudity, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Hunger Games<\/strong>, by Suzanne CollinsReasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group<\/li>\n<li><strong>A Bad Boy Can Be Good for A Girl<\/strong>, by Tanya Lee StoneReasons: Drugs\/alcohol\/smoking, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit<\/li>\n<li><strong>Looking for Alaska<\/strong>, by John GreenReasons: Drugs\/alcohol\/smoking, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group<\/li>\n<li><strong>The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/strong>, by Stephen ChboskyReasons: drugs\/alcohol\/smoking, homosexuality, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bless Me Ultima<\/strong>, by Rudolfo AnayaReasons: Occult\/Satanism, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bone<\/strong> (series), by Jeff SmithReasons: Political viewpoint, racism, violence<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time to Celebrate Your Freedom to READ!!! According to the Office for Intellectual Freedom, there were 307 challenges to books reported in 2013. Here are the top 10: Captain Underpants (series), by Dav PilkeyReasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group, violence The Bluest Eye, by Toni MorrisonReasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thomas-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1221"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1231,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1221\/revisions\/1231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wittprojects.net\/library_blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}