{"id":15690,"date":"2012-05-18T14:56:46","date_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=15690"},"modified":"2012-05-18T14:56:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-18T18:56:46","slug":"the-dirty-cowboy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=15690","title":{"rendered":"The Dirty Cowboy"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The cowboy might be trying to get clean, but the Annville-Cleona School Board on Thursday night stood by its decision that a children\u2019s book showing cartoon images of the man\u2019s artfully concealed nakedness is too dirty. <\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/midstate\/index.ssf\/2012\/05\/annville-cleona_school_board_s.html'>The school board voted<\/a> 8-0 in April to remove the book after parents of a kindergarten student lodged a complaint about it. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.pennlive.com\/patriot-news\/photo\/2012\/05\/11036630-large.jpg\"><\/center><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cBarbara Jones, director of the ALA Office of Intellectual Freedom, wrote: \u201cLike many books, it may not be right for every student at Cleona Elementary. But the school library has a responsibility to meet the needs of everyone in the school community \u2014 not just the most vocal, the most powerful, or even the majority.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>If a parent thinks a particular book is not suitable for their child, they should guide their children to other books. They should not be given the power to impose their beliefs or preferences on other people\u2019s children,\u201d Jones said. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>New to America, Mrs Jones?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cowboy might be trying to get clean, but the Annville-Cleona School Board on Thursday night stood by its decision that a children\u2019s book showing cartoon images of the man\u2019s artfully concealed nakedness is too dirty. The school board voted 8-0 in April to remove the book after parents of a kindergarten student lodged a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}