{"id":3691,"date":"2012-12-10T09:58:33","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T16:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/catcher-in-the-rye-still-evil\/"},"modified":"2012-12-21T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T17:03:09","slug":"catcher-in-the-rye-still-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/12\/10\/catcher-in-the-rye-still-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Catcher In The Rye Still Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/booknews\/9729383\/Catcher-in-the-Rye-dropped-from-US-school-curriculum.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The Telegraph UK<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Catcher in the Rye dropped from US school curriculum<\/h1>\n<p><em>Schools in America are to drop classic books such as Harper Lee&#8217;s To Kill a Mockingbird and JD Salinger&#8217;s Catcher in the Rye from their curriculum in favour of &#8216;informational texts&#8217;.<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.telegraph.co.uk\/multimedia\/archive\/02421\/salinger_2421282b.jpg\" style=\"border: 0px; display: block; color: #282828; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 10px; line-height: normal\" alt=\"JD Salinger's novel Catcher in the Rye is to be replaced by 'informational texts' on the US curriculum. \" height=\"auto\" width=\"480\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 0.75em; color: #999999; line-height: 1.38em\" class=\"credit\">Photo: Rex Features<\/span><\/p>\n<p>American literature classics are to be replaced by insulation manuals and plant inventories in US classrooms by 2014.<\/p>\n<p>A new school curriculum which will affect 46 out of 50 states will make it compulsory for at least 70 per cent of books studied to be non-fiction, in an effort to ready pupils for the workplace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/\" target=\"_blank\">Books<\/a>\u00a0such as JD Salinger&#8217;s Catcher in the Rye and Harper Lee&#8217;s To Kill a Mockingbird will be replaced by &#8220;informational texts&#8221; approved by the Common Core State Standards.<\/p>\n<p>Suggested non-fiction texts include Recommended Levels of Insulation by the the US Environmental Protection Agency, and the Invasive Plant Inventory, by California&#8217;s Invasive Plant Council.<\/p>\n<p>The new educational standards have the backing of the influential National Governors&#8217; Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers, and are being part-funded by a grant from the Bill &amp; Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/culture\/books\/booknews\/9729383\/Catcher-in-the-Rye-dropped-from-US-school-curriculum.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading this filth at The Telegraph<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Telegraph UK Catcher in the Rye dropped from US school curriculum Schools in America are to drop classic books such as Harper Lee&#8217;s To Kill a Mockingbird and JD Salinger&#8217;s Catcher in the Rye from their curriculum in favour of &#8216;informational texts&#8217;. Photo: Rex Features American literature classics are to be replaced by [&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":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691","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=3691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}