{"id":1601,"date":"2008-04-05T09:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T09:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/04\/banned-in-boston\/"},"modified":"2011-11-01T15:13:21","modified_gmt":"2011-11-01T19:13:21","slug":"banned-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/monkeymind\/2008\/04\/banned-in-boston.html","title":{"rendered":"Banned in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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Turns out today is the anniversary of when H. L. Mencken<\/a> got himself arrested in Boston for selling a magazine that had been \u201cbanned in Boston.\u201d<\/p>\n

Try as I might, my writings don\u2019t even get a stir of annoyance from the local powers that be.<\/p>\n

I would like to think it\u2019s because they read less than they used to\u2026<\/p>\n

Sigh\u2026<\/p>\n

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Turns out today is the anniversary of when H. L. Mencken got himself arrested in Boston for selling a magazine that had been \u201cbanned in Boston.\u201d Try as I might, my writings don\u2019t even get a stir of annoyance from the local powers that be. I would like to think it\u2019s because they read less […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":120,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\nBanned in Boston<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Turns out today is the anniversary of when H. L. 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