{"id":995,"date":"2010-09-23T16:29:17","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T20:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/?p=995"},"modified":"2010-09-23T16:30:12","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T20:30:12","slug":"debs-speak-loudly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/debs-speak-loudly\/","title":{"rendered":"Debs Speak Loudly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(in the eloquent words of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flashburnout.com\/\">L.K. Madigan<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/debut2009\/\">My darling Debs<\/a> have banded together in DebSolidarity to support one of our members, Sarah Ockler. Sarah is the author of  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780316051590\">TWENTY BOY SUMMER<\/a>, a beautifully written YA novel about love and grief and friendship. Last week a concerned parent in Missouri exercised his right to free speech when he accused Sarah\u2019s book, and Laurie Halse Anderson\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9780374371524\">SPEAK<\/a> (one of the most important YA novels ever written) of being \u201csoft pornography,\u201d and thus inappropriate for high school English classes. He also attacked Kurt Vonnegut\u2019s SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 for its profane language.<\/p>\n<p>This man has every right to his opinion; he does NOT, however, have the right to demand these books be removed from libraries. Oddly, this person (I\u2019m not even going to use his name \u2013 I don\u2019t want to give him any more press) homeschools his own children. I guess he\u2019s not content with setting the curriculum for his own kids \u2026 he would like to dictate to the public schools.<\/p>\n<p>The Debs have committed to mailing out 38 copies of Sarah\u2019s book to celebrate the freedom to read. Winners will be selected October 2. Go <a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/debut2009\/1012444.html\">here<\/a> to read more, and enter to win a copy. And when someone challenges your right to read any book you like? SPEAK LOUDLY.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/community.livejournal.com\/debut2009\/1012444.html\"><img src=\"http:\/\/pics.livejournal.com\/anywherebeyond\/pic\/000ckgzk\/s320x240\"><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(in the eloquent words of L.K. Madigan) My darling Debs have banded together in DebSolidarity to support one of our members, Sarah Ockler. Sarah is the author of TWENTY BOY SUMMER, a beautifully written YA novel about love and grief &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/23\/debs-speak-loudly\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":999,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megancrewe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}