{"id":1950,"date":"2017-11-05T21:30:42","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T21:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=158"},"modified":"2017-11-05T21:30:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T21:30:42","slug":"11-5-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2017\/11\/05\/11-5-17\/","title":{"rendered":"11.5.17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>What do you feel about banned books?<\/em><br \/>\nI find them stupid. \u00a0It is just another way of brainwashing people into thinking how you want them to think. \u00a0Many of them are banned for what I think are dumb reasons. \u00a0A few examples:<br \/>\n&#8220;The Diary of Anne Frank&#8221; banned because she talks about female anatomy.<br \/>\n&#8220;To Kill a Mockingbird&#8221; banned for racist topics.<br \/>\nI think many of the banned books show ways that people thought in the past, and I believe we need to remember the consequences of thinking in certain ways, or the past will repeat itself. \u00a0It&#8217;s 2017, and we still have KKK rallies. \u00a0Why? \u00a0People don&#8217;t take the time to understand the history, they are just ready to revolt against anything they don&#8217;t agree with. \u00a0How does that progress anyone? \u00a0It doesn&#8217;t.<br \/>\nI can understand how certain language can be very offensive to people, which is the reason many of Mark Twain&#8217;s books are banned, but those bans come from the connotations that certain words bring up. \u00a0At the same time, I think we need to be aware of this language and its effect on people, because I can guarantee that uses it in modern society will solicit an unpleasant reaction, as it should, no matter what race you are.<br \/>\nUntil tomorrow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do you feel about banned books? I find them stupid. \u00a0It is just another way of brainwashing people into thinking how you want them to think. \u00a0Many of them are banned for what I think are dumb reasons. \u00a0A few examples: &#8220;The Diary of Anne Frank&#8221; banned because she talks about female anatomy. &#8220;To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-1950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}