{"id":9960,"date":"2022-01-01T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-01T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=9960"},"modified":"2021-12-29T21:44:03","modified_gmt":"2021-12-30T03:44:03","slug":"a-texas-school-district-banned-my-book-then-things-got-really-ugly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=9960","title":{"rendered":"A Texas School District Banned My Book. Then Things Got Really Ugly."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.texasmonthly.com\/news-politics\/texas-school-district-banned-my-book\/\">Ashley Hope Perez:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The viral circulation of Bell\u2019s stunt triggered waves of hatred toward me and others close to me: ugly phone messages calling me a \u201cdegenerate piece of s\u2014,\u201d emails that were little more than expletives strung together, social media comments saying I was \u201cliterally SATAN,\u201d and suggestions that I hang myself. One letter I received in the mail informed me that I am \u201cno better than a slut or hooker,\u201d continuing, \u201cI am guessing that you would love for some boys to take you out back.\u201d The day I started getting hate letters at my university address was the last straw. After that, I enlisted some media-savvy friends who helped me make a funny video response to Bell\u2019s rant\u2014a response that I hope reveals the absurdity of these attacks and the importance of recognizing them for the attention-seeking antics they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley Hope Perez: The viral circulation of Bell\u2019s stunt triggered waves of hatred toward me and others close to me: ugly phone messages calling me a \u201cdegenerate piece of s\u2014,\u201d emails that were little more than expletives strung together, social media comments saying I was \u201cliterally SATAN,\u201d and suggestions that I hang myself. One letter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9961,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9960\/revisions\/9961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}