{"id":187,"date":"2023-12-10T00:03:15","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T06:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/re-faith.org\/?p=187"},"modified":"2023-12-19T13:05:48","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T19:05:48","slug":"good-advice-rarely-followed-banned-book-qotd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/re-faith.org\/index.php\/2023\/12\/10\/good-advice-rarely-followed-banned-book-qotd\/","title":{"rendered":"Good advice rarely followed \u2013 banned book QOTD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div id=\"banned-book-QoTD\" class=\"wp-block-group is-style-default\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p id=\"QoTD\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">&#8220;But you gotta live your own life. You gotta take care a your own sh*t before you get started doing things for errybody else.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li class=\"single-item-list\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:200\">from <em><a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/p\/books\/me-and-earl-and-the-dying-girl-revised-edition-jesse-andrews\/8245314\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Bookshop.org book listing\"><em>Me and Earl and the Dying Girl<\/em><\/a><\/em> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jesseandrews.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Author's site\">Jesse Andrews<\/a>, a frequently banned book<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\".single-item-list\" id=\"hitlist\"><strong>#10 (tie)<\/strong> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">American Library Association&#8217;s<\/a> list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ala.org\/advocacy\/bbooks\/frequentlychallengedbooks\/top10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022<\/a>.  See <a href=\"https:\/\/re-faith.org\/index.php\/about-us\/\" title=\"About Re:\">what we are doing about it at Re:faith<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/re-faith.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/230403-oif-bbw23-CHALLENGEDBOOK-twittershare-10.3.png?resize=1024%2C576&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-318\" style=\"width:427px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/re-faith.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/230403-oif-bbw23-CHALLENGEDBOOK-twittershare-10.3.png?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/re-faith.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/230403-oif-bbw23-CHALLENGEDBOOK-twittershare-10.3.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/re-faith.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/230403-oif-bbw23-CHALLENGEDBOOK-twittershare-10.3.png?resize=768%2C432&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/re-faith.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/230403-oif-bbw23-CHALLENGEDBOOK-twittershare-10.3.png?resize=1%2C1&amp;ssl=1 1w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/re-faith.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/230403-oif-bbw23-CHALLENGEDBOOK-twittershare-10.3.png?resize=600%2C338&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/re-faith.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/230403-oif-bbw23-CHALLENGEDBOOK-twittershare-10.3.png?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Contrary to political rhetoric, banning books doesn&#8217;t &#8220;protect kids.&#8221; Book banning denies reality, trying to shove it into a shape that is more palatable, hoping to gaslight kids into believing this made-up version. If you want to do that to your own kids. Well, I think that&#8217;s a bad idea, but they are <em>your<\/em> kids. If you do that to <em>my<\/em> kids, to <em>all<\/em> the kids&#8230; that&#8217;s just wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;But you gotta live your own life. You gotta take care a your own sh*t before you get started doing things for errybody else.&#8221; #10 (tie) on the American Library Association&#8217;s list of Top 13 Most Challenged Books of 2022. See what we are doing about it at Re:faith. 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