{"id":635,"date":"2014-03-04T11:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T17:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/?p=635"},"modified":"2014-03-04T08:22:29","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T14:22:29","slug":"south-carolina-bans-lgbt-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/archives\/635","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Bans LGBT Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two state universities <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/books\/jacketcopy\/la-et-jc-south-carolina-votes-to-cut-university-funding-over-gay-themed-books-20140228,0,3652692.story#ixzz2uqPuLeZN\">have assigned LGBT books to incoming students<\/a>, and South Carolina lawmakers have proposed cutting $69,000 in funding to the University of South Carolina Upstate and the College of Charleston. <i>Fun Home <\/i>by Alison Bechdel lost Charleston $52,000 while <i>Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio, <\/i>a collection of stories from a South Carolina radio show, took only $17,000 from SC Upstate. <i>Fun Home <\/i>won a Stonewall award in 2007, and <i>Out Loud <\/i>was on the first Over the Rainbow bibliography of recommended books in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two state universities have assigned LGBT books to incoming students, and South Carolina lawmakers have proposed cutting $69,000 in funding to the University of South Carolina Upstate and the College of Charleston. Fun Home by Alison Bechdel lost Charleston $52,000 while Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio, a collection of stories from a South [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":636,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel","category-media-of-note"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635","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=635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glbtrt.ala.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}