{"id":127902,"date":"2015-09-08T12:53:47","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/08\/yes-the-way-to-stop-kids-from-reading-something-is-to-ban-it.html"},"modified":"2015-09-10T09:48:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T15:48:23","slug":"yes-the-way-to-stop-kids-from-reading-something-is-to-ban-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/09\/08\/yes-the-way-to-stop-kids-from-reading-something-is-to-ban-it.html","title":{"rendered":"Yes, the way to stop kids from reading something is to ban it!"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Zealand's government, responding to lobbying from a conservative group, has banned "supply or sale" of the young adult novel Into the River.<\/i> Thus guaranteeing it will become the Number 1 Most Read Book by Young Adults in New Zealand this year (even though, under the ban, people who even loan<\/i> the book to a friend face a substantial fine, though it's not illegal to possess it).<\/p>\n

Also, a clever way to go from being seen as a green and pleasant and Hobbit-friendly and fern-flag-waving country to being a provincial backwater. Banning books is so<\/i> last century.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nNew Zealand bans award-winning teenage novel after outcry from Christian group<\/a><\/span>
\nTed Dawe’s Into the River is banned from shops, schools and distribution across the country with fines of up to $10,000 for those ignoring it\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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New Zealand's government, responding to lobbying from a conservative group, has banned "supply or sale" of the young adult novel Into the River. Thus guaranteeing it will become the Number 1 Most Read Book by Young Adults in New Zealand this year (even though, under the ban, people who even loan the book to a … Continue reading “Yes, the way to stop kids from reading something is to ban it!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-censorship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133057,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/03\/15\/trump-the-travel-ban-restraining-order-and-the-rally.html","url_meta":{"origin":127902,"position":0},"title":"Trump, the travel ban restraining order, and the "rally"","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 15-Mar-17 10:58pm","format":false,"excerpt":"This video is from Trump speaking tonight at a \"rally\" in Nashville. 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