{"id":384,"date":"2012-02-23T17:08:28","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T17:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/?p=384"},"modified":"2012-09-07T21:58:45","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T21:58:45","slug":"freedom-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/2012\/02\/23\/freedom-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/files\/2012\/02\/cover2012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-385\" title=\"cover2012\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/files\/2012\/02\/cover2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"130\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 Whether we call it Freedom to Read Week or Banned Books Week, it is important to consider the freedom we have here in Canada to choose what we want to read.\u00a0 You are free to walk into any library or bookstore and read from any book you find there.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this freedom is often under fire.<br \/>\nFreedom to read can never be taken for granted.\u00a0 Even in Canada, a free country by world standards, books and magazines are banned at the border.\u00a0 Schools and libraries are regularly asked to remove books and magazines from their shelves.\u00a0 Free expression on the Internet is under attack.\u00a0 Few of these stories make headlines, but they affect the right of Canadians to decide for themselves what they choose to read (FreedomToRead.ca).<br \/>\nCome by the library between Mon., Feb. 27 and Fri., March 2 and check out some of the books you can read, that somebody, sometime, has tried to have removed from library shelves.\u00a0 Add your name and titles you&#8217;ve read\u00a0to the list of Mountain Reads Freely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Whether we call it Freedom to Read Week or Banned Books Week, it is important to consider the freedom we have here in Canada to choose what we want to read.\u00a0 You are free to walk into any library or bookstore and read from any book you find there.\u00a0 Unfortunately, this freedom is often under fire. Freedom to read can never be taken for granted.\u00a0 Even in Canada, a <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/2012\/02\/23\/freedom-to-read\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":393,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions\/393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}