{"id":484,"date":"2019-09-12T19:48:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T19:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/olin\/?p=484"},"modified":"2019-09-12T19:48:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-12T19:48:12","slug":"banned-books-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/olin\/2019\/09\/12\/banned-books-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Event"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Did\nyou know that the American\nLibrary Association (ALA) has an Office for Intellectual Freedom that tracks\nthe books that are challenged by people at public, school, and university libraries?\nIn 2018, there were <strong>347\nchallenges <\/strong><strong>to library materials totaling<\/strong><strong>&nbsp;483 books&nbsp;<\/strong>challenged\nor banned that year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here are some items that have been challenged\nover the years:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>I&nbsp;Know Why the Caged Bird Sings<\/strong><\/em><strong>, by Maya Angelou<\/strong><br>\nReason: sexually explicit<br>\n<em><strong>In the Night Kitchen<\/strong><\/em><strong>, by Maurice Sendak<\/strong><br>\nReasons: nudity, offensive\nlanguage,&nbsp;sexually explicit<br>\n<em><strong>The Holy Bible<\/strong><\/em><br>\nReasons: religious viewpoint<br>\n<em><strong>The Hate U Give<\/strong><\/em><strong>&nbsp;by Angie Thomas<\/strong><br>\nReasons: banned and challenged because it was\ndeemed \u201canti-cop,\u201d and for profanity, drug use, and sexual references <br>\n<em><strong>Two Boys Kissing&nbsp;<\/strong><\/em><strong>by David Levithan<\/strong><br>\nReason: challenged and burned for including\nLGBTQIA+ content<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Join Olin Library in\ncelebrating Banned Books Week by attending <strong>Banned Book Read Out<\/strong> on\nWednesday, September 25<sup>th<\/sup>, 2019 from noon-2pm on the Rice Family\nLawn. FREE PIZZA!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that the American Library Association (ALA) has an Office for Intellectual Freedom that tracks the books that are challenged by people at public, school, and university libraries? In 2018, there were 347 challenges to library materials totaling&nbsp;483 books&nbsp;challenged or banned that year. Here are some items that have been challenged over the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/olin\/2019\/09\/12\/banned-books-event\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Banned Books Event&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/olin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/olin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/olin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/olin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/olin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/olin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/olin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/olin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/olin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.rollins.edu\/olin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}