{"id":3064,"date":"2012-09-27T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T16:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=3064"},"modified":"2012-09-27T08:15:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T16:15:16","slug":"bbw-2012-thursdays-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/bbw-2012-thursdays-books\/","title":{"rendered":"BBW 2012: Thursday&#039;s Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/Speak.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3065\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/Speak-187x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/Speak-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/Speak.jpg 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/PerksofBeingWallflower.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3066\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/PerksofBeingWallflower.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of the Perks of Being a Wallflower\" width=\"200\" height=\"279\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/AbsolutelyTrueDiary.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3067\" style=\"margin-left: 5px;margin-right: 5px\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/files\/2012\/09\/AbsolutelyTrueDiary.jpg\" alt=\"Cover of Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian\" width=\"150\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a>Today we&#8217;re highlighting three more banned or challenged books.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/oclc\/732603632\">Speak<\/a><\/em> was challenged in MO school (but ultimately retained) due to complaints about drinking, cursing, and sex.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/oclc\/40813072\">The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/a><\/em> was challenged but ultimately retained in a NY school due to its graphic sexual content.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/pugetsound.worldcat.org\/oclc\/154698238\">The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian<\/a><\/em> makes another appearance on the banned and challenged book lists. It has been challenged in schools around the country due to sexual themes, racial content, irreverence, and strong language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we&#8217;re highlighting three more banned or challenged books. Speak was challenged in MO school (but ultimately retained) due to complaints about drinking, cursing, and sex. The Perks of Being a Wallflower was challenged but ultimately retained in a NY &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/bbw-2012-thursdays-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":[],"class_list":["post-3064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064","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=3064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}