{"id":733,"date":"2009-04-19T15:39:23","date_gmt":"2009-04-19T10:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bridgetothestars.net\/news\/his-dark-materials-second-most-challenged-book-in-2008\/"},"modified":"2009-04-19T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-19T16:03:00","slug":"his-dark-materials-second-most-challenged-book-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/his-dark-materials-second-most-challenged-book-in-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"His Dark Materials second most challenged book in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2009\/apr\/16\/kite-runner-penguins-censorship\">The Guardian<\/a> reports that the His Dark Materials trilogy was the second &#8216;most challenged&#8217; book in 2008 (up from fourth the previous year) according to the American Library Association. Deborah Caldwell-Stone, deputy director of the ALA&#8217;s office for intellectual freedom, said the film of The Golden Compass had renewed attacks on the sequence from Catholic pressure groups. &#8220;In many cases school boards reacted precipitously and removed it &#8211; then a few weeks later they returned it to the shelves.&#8221; Thanks to BlackSatinDancer for the tip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian reports that the His Dark Materials trilogy was the second &#8216;most challenged&#8217; book in 2008 (up from fourth the previous year) according to the American Library Association. Deborah Caldwell-Stone, deputy director of the ALA&#8217;s office for intellectual freedom, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/his-dark-materials-second-most-challenged-book-in-2008\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-book-trilogy","category-golden-compass-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bridgetothestars.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}