{"id":30180,"date":"2024-10-01T11:37:44","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/?post_type=cs_article&#038;p=30180"},"modified":"2024-10-01T11:37:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T15:37:44","slug":"that-librarian-amanda-jones-fought-christian-nationalist-censors-in-her-small-town-her-new-book-warns-america-that-the-right-to-read-is-under-assault","status":"publish","type":"cs_article","link":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/the-latest\/church-and-state\/articles\/that-librarian-amanda-jones-fought-christian-nationalist-censors-in-her-small-town-her-new-book-warns-america-that-the-right-to-read-is-under-assault\/","title":{"rendered":"That Librarian: Amanda Jones fought Christian Nationalist censors in her small town. Her new book warns America that the right to read is under assault"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amanda Jones is the author of That Librarian: The Fight Against Book Banning in America (Bloomsbury Publishing). Jones, a middle school librarian in Watson, La., spoke out against censorship in her community and faced a backlash, including death threats. \u201cHer decision to support a collection of books with diverse perspectives made her a target for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"cs_issue_tax":[249],"cs_article_type":[160],"class_list":["post-30180","cs_article","type-cs_article","status-publish","hentry","cs_issue_tax-october-2024-church-state-magazine","cs_article_type-featured"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/30180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cs_article"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article\/30180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"cs_issue_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_issue_tax?post=30180"},{"taxonomy":"cs_article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.au.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cs_article_type?post=30180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}