{"id":3058,"date":"2012-09-26T08:00:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T16:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=3058"},"modified":"2012-09-26T08:00:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T16:00:16","slug":"bbw-2012-wednesdays-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/bbw-2012-wednesdays-books\/","title":{"rendered":"BBW 2012: Wednesday&#039;s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/HuntClub1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3061\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/HuntClub1.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Hunt Club\" width=\"106\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/InColdBlood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3062\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/InColdBlood-192x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"192\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/InColdBlood-192x300.jpg 192w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/InColdBlood.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/a>Today we&#8217;re featuring two banned or challenged books: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/oclc\/37277526\">The Hunt Club<\/a><\/em>, and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/oclc\/5149698\">In Cold Blood<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/oclc\/37277526\">The Hunt Club<\/a><\/em>, a mystery novel, was challenged as an option in a SC school&#8217;s summer reading program because of language and perceptions that it was degrading to women and people of color.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/oclc\/5149698\">In Cold Blood<\/a><\/em>, another perennially challenged book, was challenged in 2011-12 in a CA school because the book was alleged to be\u00a0 too violent for a high school audience. Ultimately, however, it was approved for Advanced Placement courses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re featuring two banned or challenged books: The Hunt Club, and In Cold Blood. The Hunt Club, a mystery novel, was challenged as an option in a SC school&#8217;s summer reading program because of language and perceptions that it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/bbw-2012-wednesdays-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-3058","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\/3058","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=3058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}