{"id":1521,"date":"2009-09-30T09:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T09:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1521"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:31:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:31:39","slug":"dear-sydney-youve-got-wrong-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=1521","title":{"rendered":"Dear Sydney Primary Schools: You&#8217;ve Got The Wrong Idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wishiwerebaking\/3962005655\/\" title=\"Novel_BannedBooks09\" target=_blank><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3477\/3962005655_ed45daa374.jpg\" title=\"Novel_BannedBooks09\" alt=\"Novel_BannedBooks09\" width=\"362\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Twilight is now being challenged, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schoollibraryjournal.com\/article\/CA6699297.html?industryid=47055\" target= _blank>The School Library Journal<\/a>, in Sydney, Australia.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.com.au\/entertainment\/schools-ban-racy-twilight-books-by-stephanie-meyer\/story-e6frewyr-1225772090737\" target= _blaNK>Dear Conservative Sydney Schools (Added for Judith&#8217;s sake)<\/a>: <br \/>Would you believe that some of us Yanks don&#8217;t like those books either? <br \/>(To which the Universe says, &#8220;So?&#8221;) <\/p>\n<p>We may not like it, but we would slap down our library cards to give anyone a chance to read it. We understand not wanting the younger kids to read it, but if their parents are okay with it, you&#8217;re going to have to let that go. As for restricting it because you&#8217;re afraid the younger students won&#8217;t know it&#8217;s fictional? Have <i>you<\/I> seen any sparkly vampires lately? If so, you might be in the wrong line of work.<\/p>\n<p>Let it go, Sydney schools. Just grit your teeth and enjoy the sparklies, and try not to trip over anything or mind if someone is looming over you, watching you sleep. It&#8217;s all in good fun.<\/p>\n<p>With love, FW<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div align=center>HAPPY BANNED BOOK WEEK!<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twilight is now being challenged, according to The School Library Journal, in Sydney, Australia. Dear Conservative Sydney Schools (Added for Judith&#8217;s sake): Would you&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5779,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521\/revisions\/5779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}