{"id":1047,"date":"2014-07-10T17:28:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T22:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=1047"},"modified":"2014-07-10T17:28:34","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T22:28:34","slug":"singapore-libraries-remove-lgbt-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/1047","title":{"rendered":"Singapore Libraries Remove LGBT Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2014\/07\/10\/singapore-libraries-remove-childrens-books-over-gay-characters\/\">PinkNews is reporting <\/a>that the National Library Board in Singapore has ordered the withdrawal of two children&#8217;s books with LGBT characters. The books\u00a0<em>And Tango Makes Three\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0<em>The White Swan Express<\/em> have been removed from their collections following a single complaint. Petitions to reverse the action have so far gone nowhere, and it is expected that the books will soon be destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PinkNews is reporting that the National Library Board in Singapore has ordered the withdrawal of two children&#8217;s books with LGBT characters. The books\u00a0And Tango Makes Three\u00a0and\u00a0The White Swan Express have been removed from their collections following a single complaint. Petitions to reverse the action have so far gone nowhere, and it is expected that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":1048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,58,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-glbt-news","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}