{"id":3562,"date":"2013-09-27T09:36:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T14:36:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3562"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:11","slug":"banned-books-week-2013-george-orwells-1984-banned-as-gloomy-and-depressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/27\/banned-books-week-2013-george-orwells-1984-banned-as-gloomy-and-depressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week, 2013: George Orwell&#8217;s 1984 banned as &#8220;gloomy and depressing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+TheMillions\/posts\/AFNonKmoiD5\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"George Orwell,1984 \" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/orwell.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[<em>1984<\/em> by George Orwell] has been banned at various schools throughout the U.S. for being both anti-government and too communist. Oh, and it&#8217;s considered too &#8220;gloomy and depressing&#8221; for children to read at school<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+TheMillions\/posts\/AFNonKmoiD5\">The Millions &#8211; Google+ &#8211; #georgeorwell1984 \u00c2\u00a0 has been banned at various schools\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1984 by George Orwell has been banned at various schools throughout the U.S. for being both anti-government and too communist. And it&#8217;s considered too &#8220;gloomy and depressing&#8221; for children to read at school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[827,765,811,829,828,301],"class_list":["post-3562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-827","tag-765","tag-banned-books-week","tag-depressing","tag-gloomy","tag-orwell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3570,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3562\/revisions\/3570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}