{"id":20452,"date":"2021-09-23T17:28:35","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T00:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/?p=20452"},"modified":"2021-09-24T14:03:55","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T21:03:55","slug":"banned-books-virtual-display","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/news\/banned-books-virtual-display\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Virtual Display"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-20546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/george-by-alex-gino-book-jacket-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/george-by-alex-gino-book-jacket-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/george-by-alex-gino-book-jacket-737x1024.jpg 737w, https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/george-by-alex-gino-book-jacket-768x1067.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/george-by-alex-gino-book-jacket-200x278.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/george-by-alex-gino-book-jacket-288x400.jpg 288w, https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/george-by-alex-gino-book-jacket-108x150.jpg 108w, https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/george-by-alex-gino-book-jacket.jpg 925w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/>Banned Books Week is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read. It was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries. It highlights the value of free and open access to information.<\/p>\n<p>Banned Books Week brings together the entire book community in shared support of the freedom to seek and to express ideas, even those some consider unorthodox or unpopular.<\/p>\n<p><span data-sheets-value=\"{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;For more information or to see what books have been challenged and banned over the years, go to ALA Banned and Challenged Books.&quot;}\" data-sheets-userformat=\"{&quot;2&quot;:1055555,&quot;3&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:0},&quot;4&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:16777215},&quot;9&quot;:0,&quot;11&quot;:4,&quot;12&quot;:0,&quot;14&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:0},&quot;15&quot;:&quot;Arial&quot;,&quot;23&quot;:1}\" data-sheets-textstyleruns=\"{&quot;1&quot;:0}\uee10{&quot;1&quot;:95,&quot;2&quot;:{&quot;2&quot;:{&quot;1&quot;:2,&quot;2&quot;:1136076},&quot;9&quot;:1}}\uee10{&quot;1&quot;:127}\" data-sheets-hyperlinkruns=\"{&quot;1&quot;:95,&quot;2&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/bbooks&quot;}\uee10{&quot;1&quot;:127}\">For more information or to see what books have been challenged and banned over the years, go to<a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/bbooks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> ALA Banned and Challenged Books<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banned Books Week, Sept 26 &#8211; Oct 2, is a celebration of the freedom to read and the resistance to censorship worldwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20452"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20801,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20452\/revisions\/20801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pcc.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}