{"id":6065,"date":"2020-10-26T11:47:28","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T16:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/?page_id=6065"},"modified":"2022-04-25T14:30:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-25T18:30:49","slug":"disappearing-spoon","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/disappearing-spoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Books 2016 &#8211; The Disappearing Spoon: And Other Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"\">\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 style=\"\"><a id=\"current\" href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2016\/author\/\">2016 Author<\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/bannedbooks\/bannedbooks-2016\/title\/\">2016 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-3112\" src=\"http:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/files\/2020\/10\/disappearingspoon.jpg\" alt=\"disappearing spoon cover\" width=\"500\" height=\"837\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cabellcounty.ent.sirsi.net\/client\/en_US\/cabell\/search\/results?qu=disappearing+spoon&amp;qf=AUTHOR%09Author%09Kean%2C+Sam%09Kean%2C+Sam+%7C%7C+Kean%2C+Sam.%09Kean%2C+Sam.+%7C%7C+Kean%2C+Sam%2C+author.%09Kean%2C+Sam%2C+author.+%7C%7C+Kean%2C+Sam.+author.%09Kean%2C+Sam.+author.+%7C%7C+Sam+Kean%09Sam+Kean&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>2016<\/h2>\n<p>Challenged at the Discovery Middle School in Orlando (FL) because &#8220;parts of the book are dark, and [the book has] some content that&#8217;s rather questionable for a 12- and 13-year-old reader.&#8221; The author views the periodic table as one of the great achievements of humankind, &#8220;an anthropological marvel.&#8221; The book is full of stories showing how each element affected the people who discovered the elements, for either good or bad.<\/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>July 26, 2016<\/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-6065","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6065","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=6065"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9997,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6065\/revisions\/9997"}],"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=6065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}