{"id":299512,"date":"2025-10-13T08:57:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/299512\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:57:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:57:22","slug":"pop-up-in-springfield-highlights-banned-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/299512\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop-up in Springfield highlights banned books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) -This Saturday is \u201cLet Freedom Read Day,\u201d which is part of Banned Books Week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">In recognition of the day, Vote 417 hosted a pop-up at Mother\u2019s Brewing Company in Springfield Saturday, featuring several classic books that have faced bans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">The first 25 people to stop by the table got one of those books for free, including \u201cFahrenheit 451,\u201d \u201cThe Diary of Anne Frank,\u201d \u201cHuckleberry Finn,\u201d and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">\u201cWe\u2019re wanting to show that ideas are not off limits. Just to kind of celebrate the freedoms that we have to read the books that we choose to read,\u201d said Jacob Brower, co-founder of Vote 417.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Banned Books Week is hosted by the American Library Association.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">To report a correction or typo, please email <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2025\/10\/12\/pop-up-springfield-highlights-banned-books\/mailto:digitalnews@ky3.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">digitalnews@ky3.com<\/a>. Please include the article info in the subject line of the email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KY3. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) -This Saturday is \u201cLet Freedom Read Day,\u201d which is part of Banned Books Week. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":299513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-299512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115366032112686299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}