{"id":554,"date":"2009-09-28T17:08:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T21:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=554"},"modified":"2009-09-28T17:08:23","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T21:08:23","slug":"banned-books-week-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/09\/28\/banned-books-week-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archives are often full of banned and challenged books, offering great resources for research.\u00a0 So in honor of Banned Books Week 2009, Celebrating The Freedom to Read, we will offer you a week long\u00a0look into some of those books.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_555\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-555\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-555\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/09\/daddys_roommate.jpg?w=233\" alt=\"Daddy's Roommage written by Michael Willhoite, 1990\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/09\/daddys_roommate.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/09\/daddys_roommate-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2009\/09\/daddys_roommate-797x1024.jpg 797w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-555\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daddy&#039;s Roommate written by Michael Willhoite, 1990<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"mceTemp mceIEcenter\" style=\"text-align:left\"><em>Daddy&#8217;s Roommate<\/em> is a picture book about\u00a0a young boy whose divorced\u00a0father now lives with his gay partner and deals with the controversial subject of homosexual parents.\u00a0 Because of its intendend audience (children ages 2-5) and its subject matter, the American Library Association has it listed as #2 in the list of the\u00a0most 100 challenged books from 1990-2000.<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives are often full of banned and challenged books, offering great resources for research.\u00a0 So in honor of Banned Books Week 2009, Celebrating The Freedom to Read, we will offer you a week long\u00a0look into some of those books. Daddy&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2009\/09\/28\/banned-books-week-2009\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-8W","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10099,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554\/revisions\/10099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}