{"id":23998,"date":"2012-04-03T23:41:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T23:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/moviesandmusicandbooksohmy-the-first-sentence\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T22:07:36","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T05:07:36","slug":"moviesandmusicandbooksohmy-the-first-sentence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/moviesandmusicandbooksohmy-the-first-sentence\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-23998 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/moviesandmusicandbooksohmy-the-first-sentence\/attachment\/23999\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_m1xcsx8FtE1qdcdf4o1_640-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/moviesandmusicandbooksohmy.tumblr.com\/post\/20429864038\/the-first-sentence-of-the-best-answer-this-is\">moviesandmusicandbooksohmy<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/answers.yahoo.com\/question\/index;_ylv=3?qid=20090305151758AA7dWwd\">The first sentence of the best answer?<\/a>\u00a0\u201dThis is freaking fantastic!\u201d (and I can\u2019t agree more.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Full text:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school?<\/p>\n<div class=\"content\">Let me explain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I go to a private school that is rather strict. Recently, the principal and school teacher council released a (very long) list of books we\u2019re not allowed to read. I was absolutely appalled, because a large number of the books were classics and others that are my favorites. One of my personal favorites, The Catcher in the Rye, was on the list, so I decided to bring it to school to see if I would really get in trouble. Well\u2026 I did but not too much. Then (surprise!) a boy in my English class asked if he could borrow the book, because he heard it was very good AND it was banned! This happened a lot and my locker got to overflowing with the banned books, so I decided to put the unoccupied locker next to me to a good use. I now have 62 books in that locker, about half of what was on the list. I took care only to bring the books with literary quality. Some of these books are:<\/p>\n<p>&gt;The Perks of Being a Wallflower<br \/>&gt;His Dark Materials trilogy<br \/>&gt;Sabriel<br \/>&gt;The Canterbury Tales<br \/>&gt;Candide<br \/>&gt;The Divine Comedy<br \/>&gt;Paradise Lost<br \/>&gt;The Godfather<br \/>&gt;Mort<br \/>&gt;Interview with the Vampire<br \/>&gt;The Hunger Games<br \/>&gt;The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy<br \/>&gt;A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur\u2019s Court<br \/>&gt;Animal Farm<br \/>&gt;The Witches<br \/>&gt;Shade\u2019s Children<br \/>&gt;The Evolution of Man<br \/>&gt; the Holy Qu\u2019ran<br \/>\u2026 and lots more.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I now operate a little mini-library that no one has access to but myself. Practically a real library, because I keep an inventory log and give people due dates and everything. I would be in so much trouble if I got caught, but I think it\u2019s the right thing to do because before I started, almost no kid at school but myself took an active interest in reading! Now not only are all the kids reading the banned books, but go out of their way to read anything they can get their hands on. So I\u2019m doing a good thing, right? Oh, and since you\u2019re probably wondering \u201cWhy can\u2019t you just go to a local library and check out the books?\u201d most of the kids are too chicken or their parents won\u2019t let them but the books. I think that people should have open minds. Most of the books were banned because they contained information that opposed Catholisism. I limit my \u2018library\u2019 to only the sophmores, juniors and seniors just in case so you can\u2019t say I\u2019m exposing young people to materiel they\u2019re not mature enough for. But is what I\u2019m doing wrong because parents and teachers don\u2019t know about it and might not like it, or is it a good thing because I am starting appreciation of the classics and truly good novels (Not just fad novels like Twilight) in my generation?<\/p><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"content\">Also, can I point out that even though the school banning the books is total garb, it seems to have done wonders for your student body if it led to them becoming active readers.\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>moviesandmusicandbooksohmy: The first sentence of the best answer?\u00a0\u201dThis is freaking fantastic!\u201d (and I can\u2019t agree more.\u00a0 Full text:\u00a0 Is it OK to run an illegal library from my locker at school? Let me explain.\u00a0 I go to a private school that is rather strict. Recently, the principal and school teacher council released a (very long) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6f4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23998","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24000,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23998\/revisions\/24000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}