{"id":25647,"date":"2011-08-17T11:32:28","date_gmt":"2011-08-17T10:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=25647"},"modified":"2011-08-17T11:43:13","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T10:43:13","slug":"united-states-school-county-bans-anti-mormon-sherlock-holmes-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=25647","title":{"rendered":"United States: School county bans &#8216;anti-Mormon&#8217; Sherlock Holmes book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local papers in\u00a0Albemarle County, Virginia, have reported that\u00a0Arthur Conan Doyle&#8217;s first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, has been <a title=\"The Daily Progress - Albemarle removes Sherlock Holmes book from reading list\" href=\"http:\/\/www2.dailyprogress.com\/news\/2011\/aug\/11\/albemarle-removes-sherlock-holmes-book-reading-lis-ar-1233379\/\" target=\"_blank\">removed<\/a> from sixth-grade reading lists after a parent complained that it was &#8220;our young students&#8217; first inaccurate introduction to an American religion.&#8221; In the book, in which a father and daughter are rescued by Mormons on condition they adopt the Mormon faith,\u00a0Conan Doyle wrote that Mormons were &#8220;persecutors of the most terrible description&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local papers in\u00a0Albemarle County, Virginia, have reported that\u00a0Arthur Conan Doyle&#8217;s first Sherlock Holmes novel, A Study in Scarlet, has been removed from sixth-grade reading lists after a parent complained that it was &#8220;our young students&#8217; first inaccurate introduction to an American religion.&#8221; In the book, in which a father and daughter are rescued by Mormons [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[103,746,7403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25647"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25682,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25647\/revisions\/25682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}