{"id":29718,"date":"2022-02-01T03:25:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T03:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/banning-books-is-a-short-term-solution-that-creates-a-long-term-problem#id31345"},"modified":"2022-02-01T03:25:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-01T03:25:00","slug":"banning-books-is-a-short-term-solution-that-creates-a-long-term-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/banning-books-is-a-short-term-solution-that-creates-a-long-term-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning books is a short-term solution that creates a long-term problem."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>If we oppose banning some books, we should oppose banning any book. If our society isn&rsquo;t strong enough to withstand the weight of difficult or challenging&mdash;and even hateful or problematic&mdash;ideas, then something must be fixed in our society.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/01\/29\/opinion\/culture\/book-banning-viet-thanh-nguyen.html\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; The New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/banning-books-is-a-short-term-solution-that-creates-a-long-term-problem\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        If we oppose banning some books, we should oppose banning any book. If our society isn&rsquo;t strong enough to withstand the weight of difficult or challenging&mdash;and even hateful or problematic&mdash;ideas, then some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29719,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29718\/revisions\/29719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}