{"id":598,"date":"2013-09-18T14:06:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T18:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/09\/18\/these-banned-books-week-film-screens-are-redacted\/"},"modified":"2013-09-18T14:06:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T18:06:00","slug":"these-banned-books-week-film-screens-are-redacted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2013\/09\/18\/these-banned-books-week-film-screens-are-redacted\/","title":{"rendered":"These Banned Books Week film screens are [REDACTED]"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dclibrary.org\/calendar?type%5B%5D=49&amp;type%5B%5D=133&amp;keys=banned\" style=\"margin-left: 1em;margin-right: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"170\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-Swk9KUk-HnQ\/UjnqoS3vLQI\/AAAAAAAAAyk\/xtFBGLxGH-M\/s400\/70-gregory-peck-atticus-finch-630-75.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Banned Books Week, the annual tongue-in-cheek celebration of censorship in libraries, starts on Sunday, September 22nd. Libraries have a long history of fighting critics and officials about the inclusion of books with controversial, especially ones aimed towards children. This is a chance to push back and shine a light on why these books were challenged \u2013 and why it&#8217;s important to keep them around.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not just about books though. We can have fun with controversial movies too.<\/p>\n<p>DC Public Library system is celebrating the week with <a href=\"http:\/\/dclibrary.org\/calendar?type%5B%5D=49&amp;type%5B%5D=133&amp;keys=banned\">screenings of films based on famously challenged and banned books<\/a>. Festivities kick off on Sunday with a screening of the often-criticized <i>The Perks of Being a Wallflower<\/i>, followed by others including <i>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/i>, <i>Fahrenheit 451<\/i>, and <i>Bridge to Terabithia<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>No matter where you live in DC, there&#8217;ll be a nearby library holding an event. What better way to celebrate a week about fighting censorship than embracing controversy in every medium?\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banned Books Week, the annual tongue-in-cheek celebration of censorship in libraries, starts on Sunday, September 22nd. Libraries have a long history of fighting critics and officials about the inclusion of books with controversial, especially ones aimed towards children. This is a chance to push back and shine a light on why these books were challenged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[58,121,355],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-screening","tag-banned-books-week","tag-event","tag-timely-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}