{"id":12808,"date":"2013-10-23T17:56:41","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T22:56:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=12808"},"modified":"2013-10-23T17:16:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T22:16:07","slug":"neverwhere-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/12808","title":{"rendered":"Neverwhere challenged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uww.edu\/images\/library\/blog\/neverwhere.jpg\" alt=\"Neverwhere cover image\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Use of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=tJsR3QY0qfMC&#038;source=gbs_ViewAPI\" title=\"Summary and preview of Neverwhere at Google Books\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Neverwhere<\/em><\/a> as reading material at Alamagordo High School in NM was challenged earlier in October. The school has temporarily removed it from classroom use (but <em>not<\/em> from the school&#8217;s library), pending a review by a district committee. The review committee is accepting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps4kids.org\/news.cfm?story=72917&#038;school=344\" title=\"link to Alamogordoo High School information about public comments on Neverwhere\" target=\"_blank\">public comments<\/a> (via email) until 4pm (<a href=\"http:\/\/24timezones.com\/us_clock\/usa_time.php\" title=\"US Time clock and time zone map\" target=\"_blank\">Mountain time zone<\/a>, so 5pm here) on October 25.<\/p>\n<p>The CBLDF (Comic Book Legal Defense Fund) has posted information about the <a href=\"http:\/\/cbldf.org\/2013\/10\/cbldf-defends-neil-gaimans-neverwhere\/\" title=\"CBLDF web page on the Neverwhere suspension\" target=\"_blank\">suspension<\/a> and submitted a letter in defense of &#8220;the professional judgment of teachers and freedom to read of students.&#8221; The CBLDF also posted some <a href=\"http:\/\/cbldf.org\/2013\/10\/alamogordo-teachers-librarian-speak-out-on-neverwhere\/\" title=\"CBLDF web page on teacher and librarian reactions\" target=\"_blank\">reactions<\/a> from teachers and librarians.<\/p>\n<p>Have you read this book? Andersen Library has a copy (2nd-floor Juvenile Fiction, Curriculum Collection, at F Gai). OK, curious about the part that was considered objectionable? Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/neil-gaiman.tumblr.com\/post\/64340530926\/the-parent-who-wants-neverwhere-banned-wants-it\" title=\"Neil Gaiman's Tumblr - excerpt from Neverwhere\" target=\"_blank\">Neil Gaiman&#8217;s Tumblr<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Use of Neil Gaiman&#8217;s Neverwhere as reading material at Alamagordo High School in NM was challenged earlier in October. The school has temporarily removed it from classroom use (but not from the school&#8217;s library), pending a review by a district &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/12808\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[26388,52265,178,299,26445,52266,120,263,658],"class_list":["post-12808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-banned-books","tag-book-challenges","tag-books","tag-censorship","tag-controversy","tag-gaiman","tag-news","tag-novels","tag-web-sites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12808"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12820,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12808\/revisions\/12820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}