{"id":482,"date":"2007-08-31T14:09:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T22:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=482"},"modified":"2019-12-01T14:44:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T22:44:27","slug":"bracing-for-the-hate-mail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/?p=482","title":{"rendered":"Bracing for the hate mail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good news today from my favorite publisher. A series proposal I&#8217;d submitted a couple of months ago is going to contract.<\/p>\n<p>The project: A four-volume series called The Human Family, bringing together the most current scientific thinking about human evolution, from before the australopithecines to the dispersal of modern humans from Africa. Yippee! I love this topic and will truly enjoy writing this series.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention it&#8217;s for kids? Yep, the target audience, as for most of my books, will be middle schoolers. There&#8217;ll be sidebars and wacky facts galore, but basically it will be Darwin&#8217;s Big Idea&#8211;and all the changes rung on it by subsequent generations of evolutionary scientists&#8211;applied to people. If that doesn&#8217;t get me some hate mail, I don&#8217;t know what will. I speak from experience, as I still get the occasional rancorous email or letter from a fundamentalist or creationist about a kids&#8217; biography of Darwin that Oxford University Press published a <i>decade <\/i>ago! Y&#8217;know what? I&#8217;m just glad that book is still on the library shelves, getting read and pissing people off<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good news today from my favorite publisher. A series proposal I&#8217;d submitted a couple of months ago is going to contract. The project: A four-volume series called The Human Family, bringing together the most current scientific thinking about human evolution, from before the australopithecines to the dispersal of modern humans from Africa. Yippee! I love [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,27],"tags":[58,57],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-evolution","category-work-life","tag-evolution","tag-work-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","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=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":836,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions\/836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefoff.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}