{"id":217,"date":"2009-06-23T15:37:03","date_gmt":"2009-06-23T21:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtforce\/?p=217"},"modified":"2009-06-25T10:41:39","modified_gmt":"2009-06-25T16:41:39","slug":"challenge-in-west-bend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Challenge in West Bend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/luckxj\">West Bend Library Board Says &#8216;No&#8217; to Relocating YA Books<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nThere&#8217;s a showdown in West Bend over &#8216;questionable materials&#8217; in the &#8216;young adult&#8217; section of the library. The original challenge began with books with LGBT themes, with a couple asking them to be moved to the &#8216;adult&#8217; section of the library. The back-and-forth has escalated with more groups joining each side, and it has even received the attention of the national media (ABC News picked up <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/mforvj\">the story<\/a> last Friday).<\/p>\n<p>I may be slightly biased towards this story given its subject matter, but I think that it&#8217;s still interesting nonetheless. I&#8217;ve been following the story for several weeks now, and personally, I can&#8217;t understand why people think <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/l2t33o\">burning the books<\/a> would do any good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>West Bend Library Board Says &#8216;No&#8217; to Relocating YA Books There&#8217;s a showdown in West Bend over &#8216;questionable materials&#8217; in the &#8216;young adult&#8217; section of the library. The original challenge began with books with LGBT themes, with a couple asking &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/?p=217\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1105,199],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-its-happening-here","category-lgbt-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":219,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/lgbtcommittee\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}