{"id":703,"date":"2008-09-29T21:58:54","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T16:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-thankful-censorship-never-works\/"},"modified":"2008-09-29T21:58:54","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T16:58:54","slug":"pullman-thankful-censorship-never-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-thankful-censorship-never-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Pullman thankful censorship never works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In conjunction with Banned Books Week in the US, which we reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/banned-books-week-begins-in-the-us\/\">earlier this week<\/a>, Philip Pullman has written an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/sep\/29\/philip.pullman.amber.spyglass.golden.compass.banned\">the Guardian&#8217;s<\/a> culture section: &#8220;When I heard that my novel The Golden Compass &#8230; appeared in the top five of the American Library Association&#8217;s list of 2007&#8217;s most challenged books, my immediate and ignoble response was glee.&#8221;  Although the film adaptation suffered in the American box office due in large part to the Catholic League&#8217;s boycott activities, Pullman&#8217;s book sales went a long way up.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2008\/sep\/29\/philip.pullman.amber.spyglass.golden.compass.banned\">Read more<\/a>.  Thanks to Kinders for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In conjunction with Banned Books Week in the US, which we reported on earlier this week, Philip Pullman has written an article in the Guardian&#8217;s culture section: &#8220;When I heard that my novel The Golden Compass &#8230; appeared in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/pullman-thankful-censorship-never-works\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}