{"id":14396,"date":"2024-06-21T15:29:45","date_gmt":"2024-06-21T19:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=14396"},"modified":"2024-06-21T15:45:05","modified_gmt":"2024-06-21T19:45:05","slug":"whats-eating-gilbert-grape","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/whats-eating-gilbert-grape\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2007 &#8211; What&#8217;s Eating Gilbert Grape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"marsha-row mt-4 mb-4 flex flex-wrap -mx-2 lg:-mx-6  justify-start border-0 border-gray-100 first:mt-0\">\n\t\n<p><!-- *  START LEFT COLUMN  *--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-3\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2007\/author\/\">2007 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2007\/title\/\">2007 Title<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/\">Banned Books Home<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h2>Cover<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3433\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2024\/06\/gilbertgrape.jpg\" alt=\"what's eating gilbert grape cover\" width=\"304\" height=\"475\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabellcounty.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/cabell\/search\/results?qu=what%27s+eating+gilbert+grape&amp;qf=AUTHOR%09Author%09Hedges%2C+Peter.%09Hedges%2C+Peter.+%7C%7C+Hedges%2C+Peter.+What%27s+eating+Gilbert+Grape%3F%09Hedges%2C+Peter.+What%27s+eating+Gilbert+Grape%3F+%7C%7C+Hedges%2C+Peter%09Hedges%2C+Peter&amp;qf=-AUTHOR%09Author%09Hallstrom%2C+Lasse.%09Hallstrom%2C+Lasse.+%7C%7C+Hallstr%C3%B6m%2C+Lasse.%09Hallstr%C3%B6m%2C+Lasse.&amp;rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle\">Held at Cabell County Public Library.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- *** ** END LEFT COLUMN ** ***-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/p><p><!-- *** ** START RIGHT COLUMN ** **--><div class=\"columns w-full lg:w-9\/12  lg:px-6    mt-6\">\n<div class=\"\">\n\n<p><strong>Marshall University does not ban books!  The information is provided to let people know what has been banned\/challenged elsewhere.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>2007<\/h2>\n<p>Banned by the superintendent at the Carroll (IA) High School because of parental concerns about an oral sex scene. In response, students started an internet protest on Facebook. Hundreds joined the group &#8211; Un-ban Gilbert Grape! Censorship is Wrong &#8211; and organizers say they plan to collect signatures calling for a formal review. &#8220;Parents were already notified of its content and had to sign a permission slip for their child to read it.&#8221; Later the Carroll school board voted to overturn Superintendent Rob Cordes&#8217; decision to ban the book from the high school&#8217;s literature-to-film class.<\/p>\n<h2>On These Pages<\/h2>\n<p>A <strong>Banned<\/strong> book has been removed from a library, classroom, etc.<br \/>\nA <strong>Challenged<\/strong> book has been requested to be removed from a library, classroom, etc.<\/p>\n<h2>For additional information contact<\/h2>\n<p>Ron Titus, <a href=\"mailto:titus@marshall.edu\">titus@marshall.edu<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"tel:304-696-6575\">304-696-6575<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Last updated<\/h2>\n<p>August 19, 2010<\/p>\n<p><!-- ** ** END RIGHT COLUMN *** *-->\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n<p><!-- *** * END FULL PAGE DIV * *** --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":784,"featured_media":0,"parent":2039,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-full-width.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-14396","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/784"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14400,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14396\/revisions\/14400"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}