{"id":5486,"date":"2022-05-31T23:10:46","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T04:10:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5486"},"modified":"2022-05-31T23:13:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T04:13:32","slug":"banned-books-updikes-rabbit-is-in-good-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/05\/31\/banned-books-updikes-rabbit-is-in-good-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned books: Updike’s Rabbit is in good company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Unsurprisingly, John Updike’s Rabbit, Run<\/em> is banned in many schools. But so is George Orwell’s Animal House<\/em>, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby<\/em>, Joseph Heller’s Catch-22<\/em>, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men<\/em>, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies<\/em>, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple<\/em>, and J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye<\/em>\u2014all books, like Rabbit, Run<\/em>, that were once taught in schools without protest. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But when books like Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are<\/em> and Bill Martin Jr.\/Eric Carle’s Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?<\/em> and E.B. White’s Charlotte’s Web<\/em> also make the banned books list, it sends a message more disturbing than the act of censorship: it’s sad proof that American minds are narrowing more than ever before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s an article on “45 Books You Read in School That Are Banned Now,”<\/a> which was published in Earn Spend Live. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Unsurprisingly, John Updike’s Rabbit, Run is banned in many schools. But so is George Orwell’s Animal House, F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, Joseph Heller’s Catch-22, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men, William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, Alice Walker’s … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists","category-updike-in-context"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5486"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5490,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5486\/revisions\/5490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}