{"id":28406,"date":"2011-09-24T19:22:24","date_gmt":"2011-09-24T19:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/local_paper_front_page-parents_say_book_inappropriate_for_teens\/"},"modified":"2011-09-24T19:22:24","modified_gmt":"2011-09-24T19:22:24","slug":"local_paper_front_page-parents_say_book_inappropriate_for_teens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28406","title":{"rendered":"Local paper front page&#8211;Parents say book inappropriate for teens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author Bret Lott says his book &#8220;The Hunt Club&#8221; is a story about a 15-year-old figuring out who he is in the most specific and universal sense.<\/p>\n<p>Wando High School parent James Pasley says the book uses foul language, degrades women and people of color, and isn&#8217;t appropriate to be on a recommended reading list for high school students&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know what motivates this kind of reaction except a kind of Victorian sensibility, and I say that as a believing Christian and Sunday school teacher,&#8221; Lott said. &#8220;How do you shield children from racism? Virtue is not virtue unless it is made vulnerable and put to the test in confronting these things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/news\/2011\/sep\/24\/parents-say-book-inappropriate-for-teens\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Bret Lott says his book &#8220;The Hunt Club&#8221; is a story about a 15-year-old figuring out who he is in the most specific and universal sense. Wando High School parent James Pasley says the book uses foul language, degrades<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=28406\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,54,92,101,111,98,108,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-south-carolina","category-books","category-children","category-education","category-marriage-family","category-religion-culture","category-teens-youth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}