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Banned Books Week<\/a> has arrived and I wrote a follow-up piece to my 2025 book banning story<\/a>. Please take a look:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Surf City Censorship<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catching up with the MAGA book banners of Huntington Beach<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Find out more about what you can do to fight book bans this week and every week on the Banned Books Week\u00a0website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Banned Books Week has arrived and I wrote a follow-up piece to my 2025 book banning story. Please take a look: Surf City Censorship Catching up with the MAGA book banners of Huntington Beach Find out more about what you can do to fight book bans this week and every week on the Banned Books […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBanned Books Week October 4-10 -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"It's banned books week and I caught up with the news from Huntington Beach. 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