{"id":690,"date":"2008-12-13T08:45:27","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:45:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=690"},"modified":"2008-12-13T08:45:27","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T13:45:27","slug":"lexicon-zeitgeist-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=690","title":{"rendered":"Lexicon Zeitgeist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>bowdlerize<\/em> &#8211; to physically remove material from a book deemed improper, thereby negatively impacting the message of the literary work<\/p>\n<p>Taken from <a title=\"sigh\" href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/12\/08\/new-rochelle-school.html\" target=\"_self\">recent headlines<\/a>. I find censorship in schools to be a futile exercise. Banning books in schools does not prevent ambitious readers from getting them at public libraries, book stores, or even (scandel!) the internet. It is a repugnant practice that diminishes educational possibilities. It shuts the door on open dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>Without further ado. Pretend that I am Jewish and practice the <a title=\"is it kosher\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jewfaq.org\/kashrut.htm\" target=\"_blank\">laws of Kosher<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a faithful and practicing Jew I find Dr. Suess&#8217; book &#8220;Green Eggs and Ham&#8221; to be highly offensive. All references to ham will be ripped out of the book before my first grade class is allowed to read the book. I have to <em>bowdlerize<\/em> this book to make it acceptable for others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will never claim to be a good Jew because, let&#8217;s face it, I love ham. Nor am I implying that Jews actually do this. But, bowdlerizing not only dimishes the literary merit of a work, but it impinges one&#8217;s beliefs of what is acceptable onto another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bowdlerize &#8211; to physically remove material from a book deemed improper, thereby negatively impacting the message of the literary work Taken from recent headlines. I find censorship in schools to be a futile exercise. Banning books in schools does not prevent ambitious readers from getting them at public libraries, book stores, or even (scandel!) the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/?p=690\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lexicon Zeitgeist<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,12,15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-genius","category-lexicon","category-zeitgeist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kenfager.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}