{"id":1181,"date":"2020-03-03T12:29:26","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T20:29:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=1181"},"modified":"2020-03-03T12:29:26","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T20:29:26","slug":"oregon-book-awards-finalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=1181","title":{"rendered":"Oregon Book Awards Finalist!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"450\" height=\"225\" src=\"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-Childrens-Lit-Finalists-480x240-450x225.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-Childrens-Lit-Finalists-480x240-450x225.png 450w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-Childrens-Lit-Finalists-480x240-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-Childrens-Lit-Finalists-480x240-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/stefoff.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/2020-Childrens-Lit-Finalists-480x240.png 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m terrifically proud and excited that my <em>Charles Darwin&#8217;s On the Origin of Species: Young Readers Version: Young Readers Edition<\/em> is a finalist in the Children&#8217;s Literature category of the 2020 Oregon Book Awards. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sponsored by Literary Arts&#8211;a hard-working and effective organization that promotes our state&#8217;s writers, develops writing programs in schools, and brings thought-provoking and important writers from all over to speak in Oregon&#8211;these awards are given annually in seven categories. The litany of finalists and winners is a glorious one. I am thrilled to be in their number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The winners will be announced in a ceremony at the end of April. No matter what happens, it truly has been an honor to be nominated. My adaptation of the <em>Origin<\/em> is my favorite among all the books I&#8217;ve written, and it is a delight to see it recognized in such excellent company as my fellow finalists. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m terrifically proud and excited that my Charles Darwin&#8217;s On the Origin of Species: Young Readers Version: Young Readers Edition is a finalist in the Children&#8217;s Literature category of the 2020 Oregon Book Awards. Sponsored by Literary Arts&#8211;a hard-working and effective organization that promotes our state&#8217;s writers, develops writing programs in schools, and brings thought-provoking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,4],"tags":[65],"class_list":["post-1181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awards","category-writing","tag-origin-of-species"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181","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=1181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1183,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1181\/revisions\/1183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}