{"id":2454,"date":"2007-02-25T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-26T01:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2007-02-25T17:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-26T01:58:00","slug":"2454","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=2454","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I must admit, I had never heard of pianist Joyce Hatto<\/a> before this, but Neil Gaiman is right<\/a> — it’s a fascinating case.<\/p>\n

Gaiman has also been making some very good points about the whole recent The Higher Power of Lucky<\/i> controversy<\/a>, including at the top of that post above.
I’ve been a little distressed and surprised to hear some of the people I know come out in favor<\/i> of the book being pulled from schools lately. I understand the good intentions that often lay behind that impulse, I think, the belief that parents should decide what books their kids should, or should not, be exposed to. But denying that right to other parents is still censorship, and I’m actually a little offended by the idea that that’s somehow okay<\/i>, just so long as that’s what the majority wants. <\/p>\n

Removing one book from a public school library doesn’t simply keep it out of the hands of a kid whose parents object. It keeps the book out of the hands of all the kids at that school, regardless of what their parents think or prefer. I think there are much better, and more effective, options available to parents than having a book pulled from the school library. I think there are better options than trying to police every stray idea that a child might accidentally be exposed to.<\/p>\n

Reading the book with<\/i> your kids, for one. Or talking to them about why<\/i> you object to it.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I must admit, I had never heard of pianist Joyce Hatto before this, but Neil Gaiman is right — it’s a fascinating case. Gaiman has also been making some very good points about the whole recent The Higher Power of Lucky controversy, including at the top of that post above. I’ve been a little distressed … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-2454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}