{"id":12479,"date":"2023-12-20T16:09:10","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T16:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12479"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:09:10","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T16:09:10","slug":"infographic-floridas-public-school-book-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12479","title":{"rendered":"Infographic: Florida&#8217;s Public School Book Bans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;No state&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/pen.org\/2023-banned-book-list\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">banned more books<\/a>&nbsp;than Florida in the most recent school year, according to free expression nonprofit PEN America. Over 40 percent of school book bans in the U.S. happened in Florida, though a slight majority of Florida school districts had no bans at all. Justifications for the challenges vary, but scenes depicting nonconsensual sex are a common motivator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>PEN America&#8217;s definition of a &#8220;book ban&#8221; is admittedly broad, and all these books remain available for purchase from private sellers, but most challenges against books still end up hindering free speech and open debate. Combined, 1,098 different books were banned in Florida in the 2021\u20132022 and 2022\u20132023 school years.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"AdY2VDJjbr\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/14\/infographic-floridas-public-school-book-bans\/\">Infographic: Florida&#8217;s Public School Book Bans<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Infographic: Florida&#039;s Public School Book Bans&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/14\/infographic-floridas-public-school-book-bans\/embed\/#?secret=G3U9k25YO2#?secret=AdY2VDJjbr\" data-secret=\"AdY2VDJjbr\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;No state banned more books than Florida in the most recent school year, according to free expression nonprofit PEN America. Over 40 percent of school book bans in the U.S. happened in Florida, though a slight majority of Florida school districts had no bans at all. Justifications for the challenges vary, but scenes depicting nonconsensual sex are a common motivator.<br \/>\nPEN America&#8217;s definition of a &#8220;book ban&#8221; is admittedly broad, and all these books remain available for purchase from private sellers, but most challenges against books still end up hindering free speech and open debate. Combined, 1,098 different books were banned in Florida in the 2021\u20132022 and 2022\u20132023 school years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/reason.com\/2023\/12\/14\/infographic-floridas-public-school-book-bans\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[321,800,894,356,471,357],"class_list":["post-12479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-ban","tag-bans","tag-book","tag-education","tag-florida","tag-school"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12479"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12480,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12479\/revisions\/12480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}