{"id":1506,"date":"2024-07-12T13:01:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-12T17:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/?p=1506"},"modified":"2024-08-25T18:34:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-25T22:34:00","slug":"beating-back-the-bans-on-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/beating-back-the-bans-on-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Beating Back the Bans on Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is very little difference between the book burnings carried out by Germany\u2019s Nazis and the book bannings being promoted by American arch-conservatives, but such bannings are rapidly increasing all across America.\u00a0\u00a0 Librarians are the first line of defense against the practice, but they need help, and independent publishers, informal advocacy networks, tight-knit social groups and book lovers everywhere all have parts to play.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who Is Beating Back Book\u00a0Bans?<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/social-justice\/2024\/03\/18\/florida-book-ban-lgbt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.yesmagazine.org\/social-justice\/2024\/03\/18\/florida-book-ban-lgbt<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Related Reading<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script src=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/widgets.js\" data-type=\"book\" data-affiliate-id=\"102171\" data-sku=\"9798869336354\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is very little difference between the book burnings carried out by Germany\u2019s Nazis and the book bannings being promoted by American arch-conservatives, but such bannings are rapidly increasing all across America.\u00a0\u00a0 Librarians are the first line of defense against the practice, but they need help, and independent publishers, informal advocacy networks, tight-knit social groups&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/beating-back-the-bans-on-books\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Beating Back the Bans on Books&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,65,41,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-culture-lifestyle","category-education","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1506"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1566,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1506\/revisions\/1566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.growpurpose.com\/bluecrab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}