{"id":2773,"date":"2011-02-06T17:06:29","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T00:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2011\/02\/richland-washington-school-board-bans-james-freys-book-the-reich-would-be-proud\/"},"modified":"2011-02-07T17:33:32","modified_gmt":"2011-02-08T00:33:32","slug":"richland-washington-school-board-bans-james-freys-book-the-reich-would-be-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/06\/richland-washington-school-board-bans-james-freys-book-the-reich-would-be-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Richland, Washington School Board Bans James Frey&#8217;s Book (The Reich Would Be Proud)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/2011\/02\/02\/1527100\/richland-school-board-to-hear.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The News Tribune<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Richland School Board to hear appeal on book<\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; font-weight: bold; text-transform: uppercase\">BY JACQUES VON LUNEN, HERALD STAFF WRITER\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: normal; font-size: 11px; color: #666666\">Published: 02\/02\/11<\/span><\/p>\n<p>RICHLAND &#8212; A good novel can teach a lot about life. But how much profanity or other objectionable content should be in novels used in school?<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the question the Richland School Board will be asked to consider tonight when a West Richland parent asks to have\u00a0<em>Snow Falling on Cedars<\/em>\u00a0by Washington writer David Guterson removed from the list of books that could be used in an Advanced Placement English language and composition class at Hanford High School.<\/p>\n<p>The committee seemed to be in agreement on its first book from the long list Tuesday.\u00a0<em>A Million Little Pieces<\/em>\u00a0by James Frey got little support from those who seemed to be the least willing to ban a book from school.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fineartamerica.com\/featured\/fdr-quote-on-book-burning-war-is-hell-store.html\" title=\"image lifted from FineArtAmerica.com - CLICK TO VISIT\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/booksweaps.jpg\" alt=\"image lifted from FineArtAmerica.com\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenewstribune.com\/2011\/02\/02\/1527100\/richland-school-board-to-hear.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to read full article at The New Tribune<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The News Tribune Richland School Board to hear appeal on book BY JACQUES VON LUNEN, HERALD STAFF WRITER\u00a0Published: 02\/02\/11 RICHLAND &#8212; A good novel can teach a lot about life. But how much profanity or other objectionable content should be in novels used in school? That&#8217;s the question the Richland School Board will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}