{"id":2144,"date":"2008-01-12T23:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T23:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2144"},"modified":"2018-11-20T05:28:14","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T05:28:14","slug":"sticking-it-to-repulsive-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/?p=2144","title":{"rendered":"Sticking It To &#8220;Repulsive&#8221; Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.just-for-kids.com\/gif\/freepeople.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"10\" \/><br \/>Little Willow&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/slayground.livejournal.com\/325803.html\" target=\"_blank\">impassioned response<\/a> to a book-labeling got me thinking again about fame &#8212; and publicity. Books get challenged and disappear when people don&#8217;t speak up. Long live those willing to be notorious in their defense of challenged and banned books.<\/p>\n<p>According to Sarah Dessen&#8217;s blog, &#8220;The school board in Hillsborough County, Florida&#8212;where <i><a href=\"http:\/\/readersrants.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/truth-and-consequences.html\" target= _blank>Just Listen<\/a><\/i> was challenged by a parent, and called &#8220;repulsive&#8221;&#8212;has decided to keep it on the shelves, though <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.tbo.com\/content\/2008\/jan\/10\/me-school-says-book-can-stay\/\" target= _blank>many have opted to leave a sticker<\/a> indicating that it&#8217;s for &#8220;mature readers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A sticker. <br \/>Well there. That&#8217;s America warned.<br \/>I&#8217;m sure young people everywhere are much safer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Willow&#8217;s impassioned response to a book-labeling got me thinking again about fame &#8212; and publicity. Books get challenged and disappear when people don&#8217;t&#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":[9,10],"class_list":["post-2144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-soapbox","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144","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=2144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4646,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2144\/revisions\/4646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/writingya.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}