{"id":284,"date":"2014-09-22T10:43:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T14:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/?p=284"},"modified":"2014-10-10T11:41:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-10T15:41:10","slug":"banned-books-week-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/09\/22\/banned-books-week-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"BANNED BOOKS WEEK 2014!"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_284'] = [\n{id: 292, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/09\/10472949_931822806832995_1085824586284538241_n.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/09\/10472949_931822806832995_1085824586284538241_n-290x290.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/09\/22\/banned-books-week-2014\/10472949_931822806832995_1085824586284538241_n\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>Banned Books Week<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/09\/22\/banned-books-week-2014\/10472949_931822806832995_1085824586284538241_n\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_284\" data-imgid=\"292\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/09\/10472949_931822806832995_1085824586284538241_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-292\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/09\/10472949_931822806832995_1085824586284538241_n.jpg\" alt=\"Banned Books Week\" width=\"744\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/09\/10472949_931822806832995_1085824586284538241_n.jpg 744w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/09\/10472949_931822806832995_1085824586284538241_n-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 744px) 100vw, 744px\" \/><\/a>Every September, the American Library Association, the National Coalition Against Censorship and other organizations sponsor Banned Books Week, aimed at &#8220;Celebrating the Freedom to Read.&#8221; The goals of Banned Books Week range from bringing censorship under the national spotlight to creating a space for a community of teachers, students, librarians, and readers and writers of all sorts to express their beliefs and ideas about literature, &#8220;even those some consider unorthodox and unpopular.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ALA website has many interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks\">lists of books<\/a> that have been banned in the US throughout history and, believe it or not, in very recent years. There are also several great resources on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bannedbooksweek.org\/\">Banned Books Week website<\/a>! Which banned book resonates most with you? Stay tuned later in the week for our picks on the banned books that are important to us!<\/p>\n<p>Attention VC Students: The Vassar College Research Services has teamed up with the ResLife dorms to celebrate Banned Books Week on campus! There will be events in the following dorms this week:<br \/>\nJoss Parlor Monday 9\/22 at 8:30 pm<\/p>\n<p>Davison MPR Wednesday 9\/24 at 9:30 pm<\/p>\n<p>Lathrop MPR Sunday 9\/28 at 8:00 pm<\/p>\n<p>Also be sure to check out the Banned Books Week setup in the Library atrium!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every September, the American Library Association, the National Coalition Against Censorship and other organizations sponsor Banned Books Week, aimed at &#8220;Celebrating the Freedom to Read.&#8221; The goals of Banned Books <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/09\/22\/banned-books-week-2014\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about BANNED BOOKS WEEK 2014!<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3743,"featured_media":292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}