{"id":8984,"date":"2015-09-29T14:35:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-29T19:35:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/?p=8984"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:09:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-28T03:09:03","slug":"banned-books-2015-the-first-book-banned-and-burned-in-the-new-world-was-published-in-london-in-1650","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/2015\/09\/29\/banned-books-2015-the-first-book-banned-and-burned-in-the-new-world-was-published-in-london-in-1650\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books, 2015: The first book banned and burned in the New World was published in London in 1650."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Price.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8985\" src=\"http:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Price-198x3001.jpg\" alt=\"Price\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">The first book banned and burned in the New World was published in London in 1650: William Pynchon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153<a href=\"http:\/\/clements.umich.edu\/exhibits\/online\/bannedbooks\/entry5.html\">The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption<\/a>,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a critique of Puritanism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Mr. Pynchon, a Puritan living in Massachusetts Bay Colony, found little welcome for his views and was eventually forced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.massmoments.org\/moment.cfm?mid=206\">to return<\/a> to England.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text story-content\">Fast forward three centuries, and there were about 300 cases of attempted censorship reported in 1980, the library group says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/09\/28\/nytnow\/latest-news-united-nations-pope-planned-parenthood.html\">Your Monday Briefing &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first book banned and burned in the New World was published in London in 1650: William Pynchon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a critique of Puritanism.<\/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":[1031,811,1111,1112,1110],"class_list":["post-8984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-did-you-know","tag-1031","tag-banned-books-week","tag-meritorious-price-of-our-redemption","tag-new-york-times","tag-william-pynchon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984","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=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8988,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions\/8988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.waubonsee.edu\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}