{"id":900,"date":"2016-09-28T09:29:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/blair\/?p=900"},"modified":"2016-09-28T09:38:57","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T15:38:57","slug":"two-more-banned-book-faves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/blair\/2016\/09\/28\/two-more-banned-book-faves\/","title":{"rendered":"Two More Banned Book Faves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today we feature two books &#8230;. \u00a0 \u00a0Miss Connie&#8217;s favorite banned\/challenged book is <em><strong>Charlotte&#8217;s Web<\/strong><\/em> &#8230; a classic &#8230;. why was it challenged?<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-901 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/blair\/files\/2016\/09\/web-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"web\" width=\"108\" height=\"162\" \/><\/p>\n<p>n 2006, some parents in a Kansas school district decided that talking animals are blasphemous and unnatural; passages about the spider dying were also criticized as being \u201cinappropriate subject matter for a children\u2019s book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>According to the parent group at the heart of the issue, \u2018humans are the highest level of God\u2019s creation and are the only creatures that can communicate vocally. Showing lower life forms with human abilities is sacrilegious and disrespectful to God.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A junior high in Batley, West Yorkshire, England, which became the center of international attention in 2003 when the school\u2019s Headteacher decreed that all books featuring pigs should be removed because it could <em>potentially<\/em> offend the school\u2019s Muslim students and their parents.<\/p>\n<p>Miss Celeste&#8217;s favorite is any and all of the <em><strong>Harry Potter<\/strong><\/em> books &#8230;.. why have they been challenged?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-902 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/blair\/files\/2016\/09\/HarryPotterSeries.jpg\" alt=\"harrypotterseries\" width=\"152\" height=\"125\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Harry Potter<\/em> is now the <a href=\"http:\/\/%3Cem%3Eharry%20potter%3C\/em%3E%20is%20now%20the%20most%20banned%20book%20in%20America,%20according%20to%20the%20American%20Library%20Association.\" target=\"_hplink\">most banned book<\/a> in America, according to the American Library Association. It is undeniable that themes of death and resurrection abound in the stories, as well as detailed depictions of potions and other hocus pocus. But while there are Christians who decry the celebration of witchcraft, there are other Christians who consider Harry\u2019s journey an edifying allegory for Jesus Christ. That is another problem with banning books: it obscures the diversity of viewpoints within its potential readership. Thankfully at least <a href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/reference\/timestopics\/complete_coverage\/harry_potter\/index.html\" target=\"_hplink\">450 million copies<\/a> have been sold, so there is little danger that an eager reader will not be able to drudge up a copy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we feature two books &#8230;. \u00a0 \u00a0Miss Connie&#8217;s favorite banned\/challenged book is Charlotte&#8217;s Web &#8230; a classic &#8230;. why was it challenged? n 2006, some parents in a Kansas school district decided that talking animals are blasphemous and unnatural; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/blair\/2016\/09\/28\/two-more-banned-book-faves\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Two More Banned Book Faves<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5oMVT-ew","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/blair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/blair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/blair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/blair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/blair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/blair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":903,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/blair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions\/903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/blair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/blair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.ne.gov\/blair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}