{"id":2935,"date":"2015-01-15T09:33:59","date_gmt":"2015-01-15T14:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/?p=2935"},"modified":"2015-01-15T09:43:12","modified_gmt":"2015-01-15T14:43:12","slug":"three-little-pigs-now-off-limits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/2015\/01\/15\/three-little-pigs-now-off-limits\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Little Pigs Now Off Limits?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2937\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/tatar\/files\/2015\/01\/images.png\" alt=\"images\" width=\"237\" height=\"213\" \/>Jim Naughtie \u2013 whose writer wife Eleanor Updale is in talks with Oxford University Press (OUP) over an educational book series \u2013 said: \u2018I&#8217;ve got a letter here that was sent out by OUP to an author doing something for young people.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"mol-article-quote nochannel floatRHS\">\n<div class=\"mol-article-quote-wrapper ccox\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><em>\u2018Among the things prohibited in the text that was commissioned by OUP was the following: Pigs plus sausages, or anything else which could be perceived as pork.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><em>\u2018Now, if a respectable publisher, tied to an academic institution, is saying you&#8217;ve got to write a book in which you cannot mention pigs because some people might be offended, it\u2019s just ludicrous. It is just a joke.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><em>Muslim Labour MP Khalid Mahmood said: \u2018I absolutely agree. That\u2019s absolute utter nonsense. And when people go too far, that brings the whole discussion into disrepute.\u2019\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\" style=\"color: #000000\">Read more:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #003399\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2908910\/Oxford-University-Press-bans-sausages-pigs-children-s-books-avoid-offending-Jews-Muslims.html#ixzz3OtwKNeuW\">http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2908910\/Oxford-University-Press-bans-sausages-pigs-children-s-books-avoid-offending-Jews-Muslims.html#ixzz3OtwKNeuW<\/a><br \/>\nFollow us:\u00a0<a style=\"color: #003580\" href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rw?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&amp;u=MailOnline\" target=\"_blank\">@MailOnline on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a style=\"color: #003580\" href=\"http:\/\/ec.tynt.com\/b\/rf?id=bBOTTqvd0r3Pooab7jrHcU&amp;u=DailyMail\" target=\"_blank\">DailyMail on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mol-article-quote nochannel floatRHS\" style=\"color: #000000\">\n<div class=\"mol-article-quote-wrapper ccox\" style=\"font-style: italic\"><em>A spokesman for OUP said: &#8220;OUP&#8217;s commitment to its mission of academic and educational excellence is absolute.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #282828\"><em>&#8220;Our materials are sold in nearly 200 countries, and as such, and without compromising our commitment in any way, we encourage some authors of educational materials respectfully to consider cultural differences and sensitivities.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Jim Naughtie \u2013 whose writer wife Eleanor Updale is in talks with Oxford University Press (OUP) over an educational book series \u2013 said: \u2018I&#8217;ve got a letter here that was sent out by OUP to an author doing something for young people.\u00a0 \u2018Among the things prohibited in the text that was commissioned by OUP [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2935"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2941,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2935\/revisions\/2941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/tatar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}