{"id":1334,"date":"2008-09-28T19:01:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T01:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamingwithchildren.com\/?p=1334"},"modified":"2008-09-28T19:01:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T01:01:46","slug":"read-with-your-kids-for-banned-books-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/28\/read-with-your-kids-for-banned-books-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Read with your kids for Banned Books Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This week marks the 27th annual ‘Banned Books Week’.\u00a0 The supporters call it ” the only national celebration of the freedom to read.”\u00a0 It also marks the 60th anniversary of a book burning in Binghamton NY where a group of Catholic school students led a burning of over 2000 books and mostly comic books.\u00a0 They also combed the local area and threatened businesses who carried what they considered ‘inappropriate’ comic books with boycott.\u00a0 This is relevant because the way comics were regarded back then largely echoes the way video games are treated now.<\/p>\n

That book burning was the subject of a recently released book called ‘The Ten Cent Plague<\/a>‘.\u00a0 The book looks at the hysteria associated with Comic Books, and in particular how many thought that it would be the ruination of our culture.\u00a0 It also highlights how many states enacted severely restrictive laws that caused thousands of authors to never publish again and nearly destroyed the industry.\u00a0 It seems hilarious to us now … yet a short perusal of any newspaper or news web site shows that those same sentiments are still alive and well, attempting at every turn to restrict freedom of speech, expression and divergent thought.<\/p>\n

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So this week take the time to read something ‘controversial’.\u00a0 Check out the Golden Compass in both book and film versions.\u00a0 Head to the BannedBooksWeek.org<\/a> web site and see what great works have been challenged, banned, and burned through the years.\u00a0 And celebrate that over 225 years ago our founder made it absolutely clear that minority, unpopular speech was particularly in need of protection by reading a book that many people have thought about banning … including a certain Governor from Alaska.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week marks the 27th annual ‘Banned Books Week’.\u00a0 The supporters call it ” the only national celebration of the freedom to read.”\u00a0 It also marks the 60th anniversary of a book burning in Binghamton NY where a group of Catholic school students led a burning of over 2000 books and mostly comic books.\u00a0 They […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.gamerdad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}