{"id":2672,"date":"2024-09-25T14:38:17","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T18:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/?p=2672"},"modified":"2024-09-25T14:38:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T18:38:17","slug":"banned-books-week-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/2024\/09\/25\/banned-books-week-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books Week: Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2675\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/BBW2024stats.jpg\" alt=\"ALA Banned Books Week Censorship Numbers\" width=\"1154\" height=\"1493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/BBW2024stats.jpg 1154w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/BBW2024stats-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/BBW2024stats-791x1024.jpg 791w, https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2024\/09\/BBW2024stats-768x994.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1154px) 100vw, 1154px\" \/><\/p>\r\n<p>Censorship by the Numbers: <br \/>\u201cIn 2023, the American Library Association documented the highest number of titles targeted for censorship since ALA began compiling data more than 20 years ago. 4,240 unique titles were challenge last year, up from 2,571 targeted into 2022.\u201d <br \/><br \/>Censorship on the Rise: <br \/>\u201cThe unparalleled number of unique titles targeted in 2023 marked a 65% increase over 2022. During the two decades prior to 2021, the average number of unique titles targeted per year was 273.\u201d Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/ala.org\/bbooks\">https:\/\/ala.org\/bbooks<\/a><br \/><br \/>#ALABannedBooksWeek2024<br \/>#sunycortlandmemoriallibrary<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Censorship by the Numbers: \u201cIn 2023, the American Library Association documented the highest number of titles targeted for censorship since ALA began compiling data more than 20 years ago. 4,240 unique titles were challenge last year, up from 2,571 targeted into 2022.\u201d Censorship on the Rise: \u201cThe unparalleled number of unique titles targeted in 2023 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[127,146,100,112,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banned-books","category-censorship","category-challenged-books","category-library","category-memorial-library"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.cortland.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}