{"id":4904,"date":"2011-09-28T18:28:03","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T18:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=467"},"modified":"2011-09-28T18:28:03","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T18:28:03","slug":"illegal-banned-book-library-in-a-private-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/28\/illegal-banned-book-library-in-a-private-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Illegal Banned Book Library In a Private School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This, if real, is over the top cool. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I go to a private school that is rather strict. Recently, the principal and school teacher council released a (very long) list of books we&#8217;re not allowed to read. I was absolutely appalled, because a large number of the books were classics and others that are my favorites. One of my personal favorites, The Catcher in the Rye, was on the list, so I decided to bring it to school to see if I would really get in trouble. Well&#8230; I did but not too much. Then (surprise!) a boy in my English class asked if he could borrow the book, because he heard it was very good AND it was banned! This happened a lot and my locker got to overflowing with the banned books, so I decided to put the unoccupied locker next to me to a good use. I now have 62 books in that locker, about half of what was on the list. I took care only to bring the books with literary quality. Some of these books are:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index?qid=20090305151758AA7dWwd\">GO HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hat Tip <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/115212185875399904107\/posts\">Sean Archer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This, if real, is over the top cool. I go to a private school that is rather strict. Recently, the principal and school teacher council released a (very long) list of books we&#8217;re not allowed to read. I was absolutely appalled, because a large number of the books were classics and others that are my &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/09\/28\/illegal-banned-book-library-in-a-private-school\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Illegal Banned Book Library In a Private School<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[368,5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1h6","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}