{"id":17841,"date":"2012-10-01T13:55:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T17:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=17841"},"modified":"2012-10-01T16:13:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T20:13:14","slug":"celebrate-the-power-of-literature-and-read-a-banned-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2012\/10\/celebrate-the-power-of-literature-and-read-a-banned-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate the Power of Literature and Read a Banned Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2012\/10\/01\/celebrate-the-power-of-literature-and-read-a-banned-book\/banned\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17862\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17862 alignleft\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"banned\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/banned.jpg\" alt=\"Celebrate the Power of Literature and Read a Banned Book\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/banned.jpg 200w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/banned-155x155.jpg 155w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/banned-190x190.jpg 190w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Banned Books Week is Sept. 30 \u2013 Oct. 6<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/banned\/bannedbooksweek\">Banned Books Week<\/a> is an annual observance from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/\">American Library Association&#8217;s<\/a> (ALA) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/offices\/oif\/\">Office for Intellectual Freedom<\/a> (OIF) that celebrates the First Amendment right of the freedom to read.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2012\/10\/01\/celebrate-the-power-of-literature-and-read-a-banned-book\/mockingbird\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17865\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-17865\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"mockingbird\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mockingbird.jpg\" alt=\"Celebrate the Power of Literature and Read a Banned Book\" width=\"271\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mockingbird.jpg 271w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mockingbird-105x155.jpg 105w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/mockingbird-128x190.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 271px) 100vw, 271px\" \/><\/a>This year marks the 30th anniversary of Banned Books Week and thousands will celebrate by participating in special events and exhibits to learn about the power of literature and the harms of censorship.<\/p>\n<p>UC Libraries will bring attention to Banned Books with a daily\u00a0feature of one of the Top-10 Most Frequently Challenged Books of 2011 . Perhaps one of your favorites will be on the list.<\/p>\n<p>At number 10, a favorite of many, is\u00a0<em>To Kill a Mockingbird <\/em>by Harper Lee. Reasons for challenges: offensive language; racism.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Banned Books Week, visit ALA&#8217;s website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/banned\/bannedbooksweek\">http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/banned\/bannedbooksweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banned Books Week is Sept. 30 \u2013 Oct. 6 Banned Books Week is an annual observance from the American Library Association&#8217;s (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) that celebrates the First Amendment right of the freedom to read.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[45,22,35],"class_list":["post-17841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uclibraries","tag-books-and-more","tag-didyaknow","tag-just-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}