{"id":1773,"date":"2003-09-25T04:16:48","date_gmt":"2003-09-25T18:16:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/25\/burning-toast-brightly-proudly-and-with-great-beauty\/"},"modified":"2022-03-07T09:52:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:52:40","slug":"burning-toast-brightly-proudly-and-with-great-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/25\/burning-toast-brightly-proudly-and-with-great-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Burning toast brightly, proudly, and with great beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13250,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.themonitor.com\\\/NewsPub\\\/News\\\/Stories\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/23\\\/10643787012.shtml&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20031206073458\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.themonitor.com:80\\\/NewsPub\\\/News\\\/Stories\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/23\\\/10643787012.shtml&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.themonitor.com\\\/NewsPub\\\/News\\\/Stories\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/23\\\/10643787012.shtml&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 00:12:00&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-27 11:08:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 18:16:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 18:16:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13251,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.thegofish.com\\\/archives\\\/002159.php&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Following up on yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/inappropriate_s.html\" title=\"Inappropriate sexual arousal for teens\">book banning post<\/a>, today comes news that the books <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themonitor.com\/NewsPub\/News\/Stories\/2003\/09\/23\/10643787012.shtml\" title=\"South Texas ISD  board decides against book ban,  grants alternative\"><em>will not<\/em> be removed from the school curriculum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  In the end, the school board voted unanimously to keep Brave New World and Stranger in a Strange Land, while giving parents more control over their students&#8217; choices by requiring principals to automatically offer an alternative to a challenged book.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While I&#8217;m very glad that this was the final decision, the requirement to offer alternative choices seems a little silly. How is that going to work? Most of the class reads Brave New World, while two or three students read something else? Class discussions are going to be an interesting experience.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegofish.com\/archives\/002159.php\" title=\"Alpha Children Wear Grey\">Go Fish<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the end, the school board voted unanimously to keep Brave New World and Stranger in a Strange Land, while giving parents more control over their students\u2019 choices by requiring principals to automatically offer an alternative to a challenged book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2036],"tags":[2405,2406,2407],"class_list":["post-1773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-aldous-huxley","tag-brave-new-world","tag-robert-heinlein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}