{"id":3053,"date":"2012-09-25T08:00:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-25T16:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=3053"},"modified":"2012-09-25T08:00:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-25T16:00:31","slug":"bbw-2012-tuesdays-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/bbw-2012-tuesdays-books\/","title":{"rendered":"BBW 2012: Tuesday&#039;s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/Montana1948.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3059\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/Montana1948.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/SlaughterhouseFive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3055\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/SlaughterhouseFive.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of SlaughterhouseFive\" width=\"192\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/TheWars.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3056\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/TheWars.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of The Wars\" width=\"190\" height=\"299\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today, we&#8217;re highlighting three banned or challenged books.<em><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/oclc\/18809742\"><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/oclc\/148649293\">Montana 1948<\/a><\/em>, a novella about the intersections between family problems, sexual misconduct, and racial tension and oppression, was challenged in WI school because of language, sexual, and racial themes.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/oclc\/18809742\">Slaughterhouse-Five<\/a><\/em> is a perennial on this list; most recently it was removed from a school in MO, and eventually returned but with restricted access, because it was argued that the book contained principles contrary to Biblical teaching.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/oclc\/3609148\">The Wars<\/a><\/em>, a novel about a young Canadian soldier&#8217;s experiences in WWI, was challenged in a Canadian school, but ultimately retained, because of concerns about violence and sexual content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we&#8217;re highlighting three banned or challenged books. Montana 1948, a novella about the intersections between family problems, sexual misconduct, and racial tension and oppression, was challenged in WI school because of language, sexual, and racial themes. Slaughterhouse-Five is a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/bbw-2012-tuesdays-books\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":108,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-3053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-banned-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/108"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}