{"id":839,"date":"2019-09-16T13:03:12","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T22:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sohilibrary.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/?p=839"},"modified":"2019-09-16T13:03:12","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T22:03:12","slug":"banned-books-week-september-22-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/sohilibrary\/banned-books-week-september-22-28\/","title":{"rendered":"BANNED BOOKS WEEK! September 22-28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the website of the ALA office for intellectual freedom:<br \/>\n&#8220;<span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/bbooks\/banned\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Banned Books Week<\/a> (September 22-28, 2019) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last week of September, it spotlights current and historical attempts to censor books in libraries and schools. It brings together the entire book community \u2014 librarians, booksellers, publishers, journalists, teachers, and readers of all types \u2014 in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-style: inherit;font-weight: inherit\">The books featured during Banned Books Week have all been targeted for removal or restriction in libraries and schools. By focusing on efforts across the country to remove or restrict access to books, Banned Books Week draws national attention to the harms of censorship.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Celebrate your right to read! Take a look at some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">frequently challenged books<\/a> (by year).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the website of the ALA office for intellectual freedom: &#8220;Banned Books Week (September 22-28, 2019) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. Typically held during the last &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/sohilibrary\/banned-books-week-september-22-28\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;BANNED BOOKS WEEK! September 22-28&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-search-tools"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/sohilibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/sohilibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/sohilibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/sohilibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/sohilibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/sohilibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/sohilibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/sohilibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/sohilibrary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}