{"id":778,"date":"2013-02-21T22:47:53","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T22:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/?p=778"},"modified":"2013-02-21T22:47:53","modified_gmt":"2013-02-21T22:47:53","slug":"freedom-to-read-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/2013\/02\/21\/freedom-to-read-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Freedom to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freedomtoread.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-779\" title=\"FTRW2013_square\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/files\/2013\/02\/FTRW2013_square.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In Canada, we call it Freedom to Read; in the States, it&#8217;s Banned Books Week. \u00a0Regardless of what we call it, it&#8217;s about having the freedom to choose what we read. \u00a0We are blessed to live in a country that allows us to make decisions for ourselves. \u00a0Censorship is individuals or groups making decisions for other people, trying to curtail freedom of decision and thought. \u00a0Even in Canada, there are continued threats to reading as books, movies, and internet are challenged. \u00a0It is up to each one of us to stand up for freedom to choose. \u00a0I may not agree with a book&#8217;s content and it is my right to choose not to read it. \u00a0It is not my right, however, to determine that others may not choose to read it.<\/p>\n<p>You will find all sorts of books in our library. \u00a0Some are books that I do not choose to read &#8211; because of the genre, the subject, or the content. \u00a0However, I have brought them here because they are worthy of being available to you. \u00a0That&#8217;s what Freedom to Read is all about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Canada, we call it Freedom to Read; in the States, it&#8217;s Banned Books Week. \u00a0Regardless of what we call it, it&#8217;s about having the freedom to choose what we read. \u00a0We are blessed to live in a country that allows us to make decisions for ourselves. \u00a0Censorship is individuals or groups making decisions for other people, trying to curtail freedom of decision and thought. \u00a0Even in Canada, there are <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/2013\/02\/21\/freedom-to-read-2\/\" 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\/778"}],"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=778"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/778\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sd41.bc.ca\/mountain-library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}