{"id":7826,"date":"2016-10-01T18:08:14","date_gmt":"2016-10-02T01:08:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7826"},"modified":"2016-10-09T00:27:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T07:27:10","slug":"societys-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/10\/01\/societys-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Society&#8217;s Fears In Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4505713\/banned-books-week-reasons-change\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from TIME<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"article-title\">What the List of Most Banned Books Says About Our Society\u2019s Fears<\/h1>\n<p>by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/author\/sarah-begley\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Begley<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/players.brightcove.net\/293884104\/SJa0Thl7_default\/index.html?videoId=4724229690001\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Censors are increasingly focusing on books that represent diverse points of view<\/p>\n<p>For as long as humans have printed books, censors have argued over their content and tried to limit some books\u2019 distribution. But the reasons for challenging literature change over time, and as Banned Book Week begins on Sept. 25, it\u2019s clear that public discomfort with particular ideas has evolved rapidly even in the last 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>When the American Library Association started keeping a database of challenged books in the early \u201990s, the reasons cited were fairly straightforward, according to James LaRue, director of the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom. \u201c\u2018Don\u2019t like the language,\u2019 or \u2018There\u2019s too much sex\u2019\u2014they\u2019d tend to fall into those two categories,\u201d he says. Some books are still challenged for those reasons\u2014Fifty Shades of Grey is a common example. But there\u2019s been a shift toward seeking to ban books \u201cfocused on issues of diversity\u2014things that are by or about people of color, or LGBT, or disabilities, or religious and cultural minorities,\u201d LaRue says. \u201cIt seems like that shift is very clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/4505713\/banned-books-week-reasons-change\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at TIME<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from TIME What the List of Most Banned Books Says About Our Society\u2019s Fears by\u00a0Sarah Begley Censors are increasingly focusing on books that represent diverse points of view For as long as humans have printed books, censors have argued over their content and tried to limit some books\u2019 distribution. But the reasons for challenging literature [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826","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=7826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}