{"id":118,"date":"2026-01-16T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/?post_type=item&#038;p=118"},"modified":"2026-01-16T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T23:26:09","slug":"fahrenheit-451","status":"publish","type":"item","link":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/item\/fahrenheit-451\/","title":{"rendered":"Fahrenheit 451"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Fahrenheit 451<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<br>Ray Bradbury\u00a0<br>New York: Ballantine Books, Inc., 1953\u00a0<br>Vanderbilt University Collection\u00a0<br>Vanderbilt University Special Collections<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:18px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Fahrenheit 451<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is a dystopian novel about a society\u00a0that\u00a0bans books to limit independent thought and ideas.\u00a0In an ironic twist,\u00a0firemen\u00a0burn books\u00a0that\u00a0challenge the status quo rather than put out fires.\u00a0In 1967, Ballantine Books produced a Bal-Hi edition of the work to create a \u201csafe\u201d version of the novel for high schools in response to\u00a0attempts\u00a0to ban the\u00a0book.\u00a0Bradbury\u2019s original version continued to be published\u00a0in\u00a0hardcover for a time, but the publisher eventually began publishing only the\u00a0Bal-Hi edition.\u00a0When Bradbury discovered the change in 1980, he demanded a restoration of all editions to\u00a0the\u00a0original\u00a0version of his\u00a0work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":98,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"section":[3],"class_list":["post-118","item","type-item","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","section-dystopias-utopias"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/item"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/item\/118\/revisions\/119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu\/scifi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/section?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}