{"id":517,"date":"2014-10-21T17:59:18","date_gmt":"2014-10-21T21:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/?p=517"},"modified":"2014-10-21T17:59:18","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T21:59:18","slug":"simmons-right-to-read-showcase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/?p=517","title":{"rendered":"Simmons Right to Read Showcase!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The inalienable right of a person&#8217;s freedom to read is something that librarians and readers in general hold very dear. Banned Books Week is a celebration not only of that freedom but of the oft-challenged books that have challenged us to defend that freedom as well as live it.<\/p>\n<p>Since the inception of <span class=\"il\">Banned<\/span> <span class=\"il\">Books<\/span> Week in 1982, libraries and bookstores throughout the country have staged local read-outs of <span class=\"il\">banned<\/span> and challenged\u00a0<span class=\"il\">books<\/span>. This year the Simmons community\u00a0got in on the action! Students and readers campus-wide stormed the Matarazzo Student Lounge to read from their favorite banned or challenged books.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can checkout a showcase of our participants and their books in the video below. And stay tuned for a video of the readings themselves!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Banned Books Week 2014\" width=\"584\" height=\"438\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wDCWIh04b0A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The inalienable right of a person&#8217;s freedom to read is something that librarians and readers in general hold very dear. Banned Books Week is a celebration not only of that freedom but of the oft-challenged books that have challenged us &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/?p=517\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":333,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/333"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":518,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/blogs\/lissa\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}