{"id":4914,"date":"2013-09-27T19:27:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T02:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=4914"},"modified":"2013-09-28T19:41:35","modified_gmt":"2013-09-29T02:41:35","slug":"invisible-man-spotted-again-in-asheboro-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/27\/invisible-man-spotted-again-in-asheboro-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"INVISIBLE MAN Spotted Again in Asheboro, NC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/courier-tribune.com\/sections\/news\/local\/%E2%80%98invisible-man%E2%80%99-back-county-schools.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The Courier-Tribune<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>\u2018Invisible Man\u2019 back in county schools<\/h1>\n<p>By Kathi Keys<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"image from Penguin Australia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com.au\/products\/9780141184425\/invisible-man\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.penguin.com.au\/covers\/catalog\/9780141184425.jpg\" width=\"196\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>ASHEBORO<\/strong> \u2014 \u201cInvisible Man\u201d will once again be on the shelves of Randolph County Schools\u2019 high school libraries.<\/p>\n<p>The Randolph County Board of Education decided, by a 6-1 vote, at a special meeting Wednesday evening to reinstate Ralph Ellison\u2019s book, \u201cInvisible Man,\u201d to the county school library shelves. Casting the dissenting vote was board member Gary Mason.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 16, the board, by a 5-2 vote, originally decided to ban the book after receiving a parent\u2019s complaint about the book, the decision bringing international attention to Randolph County over the past week. The book was one of three selections to choose from on Randleman High School juniors\u2019 summer reading list; both school-level and district committees recommended the book stay on library shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Before Wednesday\u2019s 6-1 vote, board members who originally voted to ban the book spoke to the approximately 50 people who attended the meeting about their reasoning and other considerations since the first vote. Many of those present were media representatives.<\/p>\n<p>Mason said he reread the book since the last meeting and deliberated about the ban for several days. He talked about dedicating \u201chis entire life to the safety and protection of other people\u201d and his obligations to parents, students and the citizens who had elected him to represent them.<\/p>\n<p>He said he remained concerned about the \u201cstrong language\u201d in the book. \u201cI still feel it is not appropriate for children or young teens to read,\u201d Mason said, adding that he realized that others would disagree with him for opposing the book.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/courier-tribune.com\/sections\/news\/local\/%E2%80%98invisible-man%E2%80%99-back-county-schools.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Courier-Tribune<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Courier-Tribune \u2018Invisible Man\u2019 back in county schools By Kathi Keys ASHEBORO \u2014 \u201cInvisible Man\u201d will once again be on the shelves of Randolph County Schools\u2019 high school libraries. The Randolph County Board of Education decided, by a 6-1 vote, at a special meeting Wednesday evening to reinstate Ralph Ellison\u2019s book, \u201cInvisible Man,\u201d to [&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-4914","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\/4914","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=4914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}