{"id":17937,"date":"2012-10-03T20:55:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T00:55:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/?p=17937"},"modified":"2012-10-03T20:55:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T00:55:53","slug":"celebrate-the-power-of-literature-and-read-a-banned-book-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2012\/10\/celebrate-the-power-of-literature-and-read-a-banned-book-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate the Power of Literature and Read a Banned Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/2012\/10\/03\/celebrate-the-power-of-literature-and-read-a-banned-book-2\/bravenewworld-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17939\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-17939\" style=\"margin: 10px;\" title=\"bravenewworld\" src=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bravenewworld1-127x190.jpg\" alt=\"Celebrate the Power of Literature and Read a Banned Book\" width=\"127\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bravenewworld1-127x190.jpg 127w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bravenewworld1-103x155.jpg 103w, https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/bravenewworld1.jpg 339w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 127px) 100vw, 127px\" \/><\/a>The #7 most challenged book in 2011: <em>Brave New World<\/em>, by Aldous Huxley. Reasons: insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>September 30 through October 6 is Banned Books Week, an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it highlights the value of free and open access to information.<\/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>The #7 most challenged book in 2011: Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Reasons: insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit.<\/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":[324,45,22,27,35],"class_list":["post-17937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uclibraries","tag-banned-books","tag-books-and-more","tag-didyaknow","tag-information","tag-just-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17937","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=17937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libapps.libraries.uc.edu\/liblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}