{"id":6848,"date":"2025-10-06T09:09:01","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/?p=6848"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:09:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T13:09:23","slug":"blind-date-with-a-banned-book-we-respect-your-right-to-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/2025\/10\/06\/blind-date-with-a-banned-book-we-respect-your-right-to-read\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind Date with a Banned Book &#8211; We Respect Your Right to Read"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At University Libraries, we respect that it is your right to read what you please.\u00a0During Student Appreciation Week, coinciding with Banned Books Week, we present\u00a0<strong>Blind Date with a Banned Book &#8211; We Respect Your Right to Read<\/strong>. In the lobby of Sprague Library and Bloomfield Campus Library is a display of banned or challenged books with their covers blinded. Each cover presents a description of why this book was banned or challenged.<\/p>\n<p>Borrow and take the time to enjoy works available at our library that may not be so available elsewhere.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"responsive-image-holder wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"mlt-responsive-image\" data-original-image=\"\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/10\/IMG_20251006_084634341.jpg\" src=\"\/responsive-media\/cache\/library\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/213\/2025\/10\/IMG_20251006_084634341.jpg.0.1x.generic.jpg\" alt=\"display with wrapped banned books\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At University Libraries, we respect that it is your right to read what you please.\u00a0During Student Appreciation Week, coinciding with Banned Books Week, we present\u00a0Blind Date with a Banned Book &#8211; We Respect Your Right to Read. In the lobby of Sprague Library and Bloomfield Campus Library is a display of banned or challenged books [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":6850,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage-features"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6852,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions\/6852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}