{"id":172,"date":"2002-03-09T18:49:56","date_gmt":"2002-03-09T23:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/03\/09\/\/"},"modified":"2005-10-22T15:27:02","modified_gmt":"2005-10-22T19:27:02","slug":"save-yourselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/2002\/03\/09\/save-yourselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Save Yourselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear:both;\"><\/div>\n<p>That&#8217;s the thing, though, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clampcampus.com\/2002\/03\/09\/book-banning\/trackback\/\">E<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The people who want to ban Harry Potter do so because they see it as a genuine threat.  They think it&#8217;s <i>real<\/i>.  Not that Hogwarts is, but that people can really be wizards and witches and do spells and that all such power comes from SATAN.  They think the Evil One influences people to do things on a regular basis, and that simply thinking about it too hard can attract its attention and cause it to come down on you like a ton of bricks.  They also believe, and are genuinely concerned by the fact, that the rest of us are all going to hell.  So they can&#8217;t just save themselves.  They view it as their duty to save the rest of us as well.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the last part which causes all the trouble.  Which has caused drugs to be outlawed, the drinking limit raised, sex to be demonized, and yes, books to be banned.  I do not agree with their views; in fact, I think they&#8217;re quite mad.  But they are perfectly within their rights to hold such opinions &#8212; as long as those opinions do not get pushed on to <i>me<\/i> and <i>my<\/i> life.  If you&#8217;ve taught your children well enough, they shouldn&#8217;t be influenced by every little puff of air from someone else.  And I neither need nor want to be saved by you.<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both; padding-bottom: 0.25em;\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the thing, though, E. The people who want to ban Harry Potter do so because they see it as a genuine threat. They think it&#8217;s real. Not that Hogwarts is, but that people can really be wizards and witches and do spells and that all such power comes from SATAN. They think the Evil [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flaminggeeks.com\/k\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}