{"id":2135,"date":"2012-04-27T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=2135"},"modified":"2012-04-27T12:10:42","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T18:10:42","slug":"dr-seuss-yertle-the-turtle-banned-at-one-canadian-school-the-mary-sue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/04\/27\/dr-seuss-yertle-the-turtle-banned-at-one-canadian-school-the-mary-sue\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Seuss&#8217; Yertle The Turtle Banned At One Canadian School | The Mary Sue"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/yertle-the-turtle-banned\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/YertleTurtle.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.themarysue.com\/yertle-the-turtle-banned\/\">Dr. Seuss&#8217; Yertle The Turtle Banned At One Canadian School | The Mary Sue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI know up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here on the bottom, we too should have rights,\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>is causing problems.<br \/>\nReally.<br \/>\nReally?!<\/p>\n<p>Shouldn&#8217;t be especially surprising. When I was still tenured faculty at the <a href=\"http:\/\/ucalgary.ca\">University of Calgary<\/a>, my Dean went ballistic because I had posted &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/emperor.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Emperor&#8217;s New Suit<\/a>&#8221; on my website (the link is to the original page I had &#8211; now living in exile on my own domain). I was actually called in to a disciplinary meeting where they threatened me if I didn&#8217;t remove it immediately.<br \/>\nIf Hans Christian Anderson poses a threat, then Dr. Seuss is surely right over the top.<\/p>\n<p>Wait&#8217;ll they get wind of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Sneetches_and_Other_Stories\" target=\"_blank\">The Sneeches and Other Stories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-2135'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(2135);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(2135);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(2135);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>via Dr. Seuss&#8217; Yertle The Turtle Banned At One Canadian School | The Mary Sue. \u201cI know up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here on the bottom, we too should have rights,\u201d is causing problems. Really. &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/04\/27\/dr-seuss-yertle-the-turtle-banned-at-one-canadian-school-the-mary-sue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[394,63,104,149,41,101],"class_list":["post-2135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-bullying-mobbing","tag-canada","tag-canadian-society","tag-censorship","tag-education","tag-freedom"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-yr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":3655,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2013\/07\/27\/places-ive-been-to-july-27\/","url_meta":{"origin":2135,"position":0},"title":"Places I&#8217;ve Been (to July 27)","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 27, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"GMO whistleblower: Canadian federal scientist speaks out \"Now immersed in our science lesson, we learned about the results of the Human Genome Project, completed in 2002. 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