{"id":4536,"date":"2009-09-30T06:00:40","date_gmt":"2009-09-30T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=4536"},"modified":"2009-09-19T13:55:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T19:55:18","slug":"my-favorite-banned-book-to-kill-a-mockingbird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/my-favorite-banned-book-to-kill-a-mockingbird\/","title":{"rendered":"My Favorite Banned Book &#8212; To Kill a Mockingbird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|557958\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4565\" title=\"to kill mockingbird\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/to-kill-mockingbird1.jpg?resize=197%2C281&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"to kill mockingbird\" width=\"197\" height=\"281\" \/><\/a>My favorite banned book is <a href=\"http:\/\/search.prairiecat.info\/?itemid=|library\/marc\/PALS-unicorn|557958\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em><\/strong><\/a> by Harper Lee.\u00a0 I loved this book; I loved the movie.\u00a0 I can still picture (in black and white) Gregory Peck portaying the consummate Southern lawyer Atticus Finch, wiping his brow in the hot, segregated courtroom while his adoring daughter Scout, looks on from the balcony.<\/p>\n<p>Set in a small Southern town in Alabama during the Depression, the book follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother Jem and their father, Atticus, who defends a black man accused of raping a white woman.\u00a0 Thus, the book covers many issues, but because it is told through the eyes of young Scout, it never comes off as judgmental or preachy.<\/p>\n<p>I could never understand why someone would not want others to read this book.\u00a0 It won the Pulitzer Prise, it&#8217;s been translated into more than forty languages and was voted the best novel of the twentieth century.\u00a0 If somehow you got through school <em>without<\/em> reading this book, now is the time to do so.\u00a0 Come to think of it, it may be about time for me to read it again &#8212; it&#8217;s that good!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My favorite banned book is To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee.\u00a0 I loved this book; I loved the movie.\u00a0 I can still picture (in black and white) Gregory Peck portaying the consummate Southern lawyer Atticus Finch, wiping his brow in the hot, segregated courtroom while his adoring daughter Scout,<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/my-favorite-banned-book-to-kill-a-mockingbird\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[831,523,155,470,832,833],"class_list":["post-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-banned-books-week","tag-drama","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-sacrifice","tag-segregation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1ba","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4564,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions\/4564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}