{"id":1399687,"date":"2024-09-13T15:55:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T19:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1399687"},"modified":"2024-09-13T15:56:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T19:56:26","slug":"7-books-you-wont-believe-were-banned-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/7-books-you-wont-believe-were-banned-in-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"7 of the Wildest Reasons Books Have Been Banned"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"701\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bannedbooks2021_MAIN.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1448216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bannedbooks2021_MAIN.jpg 701w, https:\/\/www.sparknotes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/bannedbooks2021_MAIN-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 701px) 100vw, 701px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Good, important books get banned all the time. It&#8217;s dumb, sure, but unfortunately it&#8217;s nothing new. For instance, you probably wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to learn that \u00a0<em>The Catcher in the Rye<\/em> \u00a0has been banned for being \u201cobscene,\u201d that \u00a0<em>Are You There God? It&#8217;s Me, Margaret<\/em> \u00a0has been banned for talking about periods, and that \u00a0<em>The Diary of Anne Frank<\/em> \u00a0has been banned for being sexually explicit. School boards have even censored \u00a0<em>Fahrenheit 451<\/em>, a book that deals with the dangers of censorship, proving once and for all that irony can be lost on anyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But there are books you expect to be banned, and then there are books whose banned status&nbsp;might surprise you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good, important books get banned all the time. It&#8217;s dumb, sure, but unfortunately it&#8217;s nothing new. For instance, you probably wouldn&#8217;t be surprised to learn that \u00a0The Catcher in the Rye \u00a0has been banned for   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":182,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[10246,10247,628,25017,248],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399687"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/182"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1399687"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1449822,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1399687\/revisions\/1449822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1399687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1399687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1399687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}