{"id":114668,"date":"2023-10-25T21:44:21","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T21:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=114668"},"modified":"2023-10-25T21:44:21","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T21:44:21","slug":"brown-john-canada-experiencing-widespread-insanity-of-book-banning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=114668","title":{"rendered":"Brown-John: Canada experiencing &#8216;widespread insanity&#8217; of book-banning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lloyd Brown-John I have always been an inveterate book reader. In those enchanting days before television and social media, radio and books were sole forms of home entertainment. Reading a book was adventure and escape \u2014 a place to immerse oneself in one\u2019s imagination. By my 4th and 5th school grades I had been informally [\u2026&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/windsorstar.com\/opinion\/columnists\/brown-john-canada-experiencing-widespread-insanity-of-book-banning\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lloyd Brown-John I have always been an inveterate book reader. In those enchanting days before<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114668-brown-john-canada-experiencing-widespread-insanity-of-book-banning.jpg",1000,750,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114668-brown-john-canada-experiencing-widespread-insanity-of-book-banning-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114668-brown-john-canada-experiencing-widespread-insanity-of-book-banning-300x225.jpg",300,225,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114668-brown-john-canada-experiencing-widespread-insanity-of-book-banning-768x576.jpg",640,480,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114668-brown-john-canada-experiencing-widespread-insanity-of-book-banning.jpg",640,480,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114668-brown-john-canada-experiencing-widespread-insanity-of-book-banning.jpg",1000,750,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114668-brown-john-canada-experiencing-widespread-insanity-of-book-banning.jpg",1000,750,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114668-brown-john-canada-experiencing-widespread-insanity-of-book-banning.jpg",1000,750,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114668-brown-john-canada-experiencing-widespread-insanity-of-book-banning-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/114668-brown-john-canada-experiencing-widespread-insanity-of-book-banning-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=42\" rel=\"category\">Entertainment<\/a>","tag_info":"Entertainment","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}