{"id":31712,"date":"2022-02-04T13:02:51","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T18:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31712"},"modified":"2022-02-04T13:02:51","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T18:02:51","slug":"theyre-burning-books-in-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31712","title":{"rendered":"They're Burning Books in Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashvillescene.com\/news\/pithinthewind\/theyre-burning-books-in-tennessee\/article_1f8c631e-850f-11ec-bc9f-dbd44d7e14d7.html\">True fact<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last week, McMinn County made news when the school board voted to ban beloved graphic novel Maus \u2014 a Holocaust story told with anthropomorphic mice and cats \u2014 due to instances of swear words and nudity. While the vote happened in early January, it went viral following a report from TN Holler.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, Mt. Juliet pastor and pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Greg Locke decided to turn it up a notch by organizing an old-fashioned book burning. The books included millennial staples like Harry Potter and Twilight \u2014 hits of the early Aughts that were targeted by Christian book burnings back in the day.<\/p>\n<p>In a sermon preceding the bonfire, Locke described beefing with \"Free Mason devils\" and said \"I ain't gonna be 'suiciding myself' no time soon.\" Locke also said people aren't mad that they were burning books, but mad because of the books they were burning \u2014 implying that his critics, even other pastors, were devil and witchcraft supporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True fact. Last week, McMinn County made news when the school board voted to ban beloved graphic novel Maus \u2014 a Holocaust story told with anthropomorphic mice and cats \u2014 due to instances of swear words and nudity. While the vote happened in early January, it went viral following a report from TN Holler. Last [&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-31712","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\/31712","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=31712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31713,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31712\/revisions\/31713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}