{"id":934615,"date":"2022-12-26T14:47:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-26T14:47:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=a9b69cb1b07ce8ef8174978a61457a83"},"modified":"2022-12-26T14:47:23","modified_gmt":"2022-12-26T14:47:23","slug":"louisiana-communities-organize-to-defend-libraries-from-far-right-censorship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/12\/26\/louisiana-communities-organize-to-defend-libraries-from-far-right-censorship\/","title":{"rendered":"Louisiana Communities Organize to Defend Libraries From Far Right Censorship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lynette Mejia, a self-described &ldquo;homeschool parent,&rdquo; has raised three children in the Lafayette Public Library System in Louisiana. Until early 2021, &ldquo;I was the average person sitting around the table complaining about politics,&rdquo; Mejia said. Then Mejia discovered something that troubled her: The Lafayette Board of Control, which governs the public library system in Lafayette, had been stacked with...<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/louisiana-communities-organize-to-defend-libraries-from-far-right-censorship\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthout.org\/articles\/louisiana-communities-organize-to-defend-libraries-from-far-right-censorship\/\">Latest \u2013 Truthout<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A far right battle against libraries that started in Lafayette is now unfolding across the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25800,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,1691,1362,3745,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25800"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":934616,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934615\/revisions\/934616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}