{"id":51,"date":"2015-10-01T16:08:34","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T16:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fucked-company.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/01\/reading-list-challenged\/"},"modified":"2016-12-25T19:39:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T19:39:08","slug":"reading-list-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/social\/2015\/10\/01\/reading-list-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading List Challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nThe top ten most frequently challenged books of 2014 include:<\/p>\n<p>1) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie<\/p>\n<p>Reasons: anti-family, cultural insensitivity, drugs\/alcohol\/smoking, gambling, offensive language, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group, violence. Additional reasons: \u201cdepictions of bullying\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2) Persepolis, by Marjane Satrapi<\/p>\n<p>Reasons: gambling, offensive language, political viewpoint. Additional reasons: \u201cpolitically, racially, and socially offensive,\u201d \u201cgraphic depictions\u201d<\/p>\n<p>3) And Tango Makes Three, Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell<\/p>\n<p>Reasons: Anti-family, homosexuality, political viewpoint, religious viewpoint, unsuited for age group. Additional reasons: \u201cpromotes the homosexual agenda\u201d<\/p>\n<p>4) The Bluest Eye, by Toni Morrison<\/p>\n<p>Reasons: Sexually explicit, unsuited for age group. Additional reasons: \u201ccontains controversial issues\u201d<\/p>\n<p>5) It\u2019s Perfectly Normal, by Robie Harris<\/p>\n<p>Reasons: Nudity, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group. Additional reasons: \u201calleges it child pornography\u201d<\/p>\n<p>6) Saga, by Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples<\/p>\n<p>Reasons: Anti-Family, nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group. Additional reasons:<\/p>\n<p>7) The Kite Runner, by Khaled Hosseini<\/p>\n<p>Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited to age group, violence<\/p>\n<p>8) The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky<\/p>\n<p>Reasons: drugs\/alcohol\/smoking, homosexuality, offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group. Additional reasons: \u201cdate rape and masturbation\u201d<\/p>\n<p>9) A Stolen Life, Jaycee Dugard<\/p>\n<p>Reasons: drugs\/alcohol\/smoking, offensive language, sexually explicit, and unsuited for age group<\/p>\n<p>10) Drama, by Raina Telgemeier<\/p>\n<p>Reasons: sexually explicit\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>http:\/\/www.ala.org\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The top ten most frequently challenged books of 2014 include: 1) The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie Reasons: anti-family, cultural insensitivity, drugs\/alcohol\/smoking, gambling, offensive language, sex education, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group, violence. Additional &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/social\/2015\/10\/01\/reading-list-challenged\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[138],"tags":[178,179,180,189,216,217,218,492,493,494,495,498,499],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8l8lP-P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":138,"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pro.freezine.org\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}