{"id":5043,"date":"2004-10-01T17:33:07","date_gmt":"2004-10-01T21:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/formerlyknownas\/banned-books-week-2004\/"},"modified":"2011-08-05T14:58:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-05T18:58:23","slug":"banned-books-week-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/10\/01\/banned-books-week-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2371'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>&nbsp;<\/P><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<H3>&nbsp;<A href=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/2004\/09\/30#a2364\"><FONT color=\"#42aac8\">read any banned books lately?<\/FONT><\/A>&nbsp; <FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"1\">(Sept. 30, 2004)<\/FONT><\/H3><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><EM><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">see the ALA\/BBW <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/oif\/bannedbooksweek\/bbwkit\/childrensposter\/childrensposter.htm\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">children<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">&#8216;s poster . . .<\/FONT><\/EM><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/BannedBooksWeek2004.gif\" alt=\"bbw2004\" \/>&nbsp; <\/FONT><\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><\/BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">This is <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/oif\/bannedbooksweek\/bannedbooksweek.htm\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">Banned Books Week<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">, and a good time to be thankful&nbsp;for our freedom of expression and<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">vigilant in guarding that right.&nbsp;&nbsp; Of course, our right to read or write a book is greater than our right<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">to have that book available at a public library. The American Library Association&#8217;s theme for BBW 2004 <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">is <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"><STRONG>Elect to Read a Banned Book<\/STRONG>.&nbsp;&nbsp; Find out more about banned and challenged books <\/FONT><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/oif\/bannedbooksweek\/challengedbanned\/challengedbanned.htm#mfcb\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">here<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">. <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/ethicalesq\/2004youndadultposter1.gif\" alt=\"bbw2004ya\" \/>&nbsp;. . . <EM>see the ALA <\/EM><EM><A href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/ala\/oif\/bannedbooksweek\/bbwkit\/youngadultposter\/youngadultposter.htm\">young adult<\/A><\/EM><EM> poster<\/EM><\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><EM><FONT face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\"><\/FONT><\/EM>&nbsp;<\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">Since the weblog world <A href=\"http:\/\/www.tagorda.com\/archives\/003296.php\"><FONT color=\"black\">loves<\/FONT><\/A> <A href=\"http:\/\/declarationsandexclusions.typepad.com\/foolblog\/2004\/05\/further_down_th.html\"><FONT color=\"black\">lists<\/FONT><\/A>, why not let us know how many of the most-<\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">challenged books <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">since 1990 you have read?&nbsp;[Only six for me.]&nbsp; &nbsp;Here&nbsp;are the <EM><STRONG>top twenty from 1990 &#8211; 2000<\/STRONG><\/EM> (the ALA <\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<DIV dir=\"ltr\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">lists <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">the top 100) <\/FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\">and gives the reasons for the challenges.<\/FONT><\/DIV><br \/>\n<BLOCKQUOTE><br \/>\n<OL><br \/>\n<LI><EM><A class=\"new\" title=\"Scary Stories\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/wiki.phtml?title=Scary_Stories&amp;action=edit\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\">Scary Stories<\/FONT><\/A><\/EM><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"> (series) by <\/FONT><A title=\"Alvin Schwartz\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Alvin_Schwartz\"><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\">Alvin Schwartz<\/FONT><\/A><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,Times,Serif\" size=\"2\"> <\/FONT><br \/>\n<LI><EM><A class=\"new\" title=\"Daddy\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp;read any banned books lately?&nbsp; (Sept. 30, 2004) see the ALA\/BBW children&#8216;s poster . . . &nbsp; &nbsp; This is Banned Books Week, and a good time to be thankful&nbsp;for our freedom of expression and vigilant in guarding that right.&nbsp;&nbsp; Of course, our right to read or write a book is greater than our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2926],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pre-06-2006"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kP1R-1jl","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13601,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5043\/revisions\/13601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ethicalesq\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}