{"id":1097,"date":"2018-07-18T15:39:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T23:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=1097"},"modified":"2019-12-01T14:44:23","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T22:44:23","slug":"lies-for-kids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=1097","title":{"rendered":"Lies for kids"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Lies My Teacher Told Me<\/em> is a terrific book&#8211;informative, engaging and sometimes enraging, and frequently entertaining. In it, sociologist James W. Loewen takes a clear-eyed look at American history and <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-1098\" src=\"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Lies-cover-no-adapted-298x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Lies-cover-no-adapted-298x450.jpg 298w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Lies-cover-no-adapted-99x150.jpg 99w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Lies-cover-no-adapted-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Lies-cover-no-adapted.jpg 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/>a critical look at the way most textbooks teach it. I&#8217;m very happy to say that my next book will be a YA adaptation of <em>Lies<\/em>, to be published next year by The New Press. It was just the project I needed at this time of polarized viewpoints, truthiness, and &#8220;fake news&#8221;: a level-headed history of our country that gives young people tools that will help them become informed citizens. I can&#8217;t wait until the YA version of <em>Lies My Teacher Told Me <\/em>hits the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lies My Teacher Told Me is a terrific book&#8211;informative, engaging and sometimes enraging, and frequently entertaining. In it, sociologist James W. Loewen takes a clear-eyed look at American history and a critical look at the way most textbooks teach it. I&#8217;m very happy to say that my next book will be a YA adaptation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,4],"tags":[66,40,67],"class_list":["post-1097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work-life","category-writing","tag-history","tag-writing","tag-ya-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1097"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1100,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1097\/revisions\/1100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}