{"id":3571,"date":"2013-09-27T10:28:45","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T15:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=3571"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:10:11","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:10:11","slug":"banned-books-week-2013-good-news-ralph-ellisons-invisible-man-is-back-on-the-shelves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2013\/09\/27\/banned-books-week-2013-good-news-ralph-ellisons-invisible-man-is-back-on-the-shelves\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week, 2013: Good News! Ralph Ellison&#8217;s Invisible Man is back on the Shelves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/school-board-relents-invisible-man-is-vulgar-but-its-back-on-the-shelves\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/ralph_ellison-408x350.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wednesday night, the Randolph County School Board reversed its ban on <strong>Ralph Ellison\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s<\/strong> novel <em>Invisible Man<\/em>, just nine days after they had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/north-carolina-school-district-bans-invisible-man\/\">removed the book from school library shelves<\/a>. The vote was six to one. Only board member <strong>Gary Mason<\/strong> deemed the book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153not appropriate for young teenagers,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to <strong>David Zucchino<\/strong> of the <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/nation\/nationnow\/la-na-invisible-man-ban-rescinded-20130925,0,402406.story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Los Angeles Times<\/a>.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mhpbooks.com\/school-board-relents-invisible-man-is-vulgar-but-its-back-on-the-shelves\/\">School board relents: Invisible Man is &#8220;vulgar,&#8221; but it&#8217;s back on the shelves | MobyLives<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Randolph County (NC) School Board reversed its ban on Ralph Ellison\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s novel Invisible Man, just nine days after they had removed the book from school library shelves. Yay.<\/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":[765,830,811,815,816,716],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-765","tag-back-on-the-shelves","tag-banned-books-week","tag-invisible-man","tag-ralph-ellison","tag-yay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","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=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9979,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions\/9979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}