{"id":1881,"date":"2013-09-25T03:22:06","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T07:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnestes.org\/?p=1881"},"modified":"2013-09-25T03:22:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T07:22:06","slug":"banned-books-of-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/?p=1881","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books of 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom comes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks\/top10#2012\">the latest list of banned books<\/a> (there&#8217;s also the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks\/classics\">list of banned\u2014&#8221;challenged&#8221;\u2014classics<\/a>).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey.<br \/>\nReasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group<\/li>\n<li>The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie.<br \/>\nReasons: Offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group<\/li>\n<li>Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher.<br \/>\nReasons: Drugs\/alcohol\/smoking, sexually explicit, suicide, unsuited for age group<\/li>\n<li>Fifty Shades of Grey, by E. L. James.<br \/>\nReasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit<\/li>\n<li>And Tango Makes Three, by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson.<br \/>\nReasons: Homosexuality, unsuited for age group<\/li>\n<li>The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini.<br \/>\nReasons: Homosexuality, offensive language, religious viewpoint, sexually explicit<\/li>\n<li>Looking for Alaska, by John Green.<br \/>\nReasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group<\/li>\n<li>Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz<br \/>\nReasons: Unsuited for age group, violence<\/li>\n<li>The Glass Castle, by Jeanette Walls<br \/>\nReasons: Offensive language, sexually explicit<\/li>\n<li>Beloved, by Toni Morrison<br \/>\nReasons: Sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, violence<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom comes the latest list of banned books (there&#8217;s also the list of banned\u2014&#8221;challenged&#8221;\u2014classics). Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey. Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie. Reasons: Offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnestes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}