{"id":1794,"date":"2013-01-08T21:03:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T01:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1794"},"modified":"2013-01-08T21:03:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T01:03:22","slug":"my-book-clears-a-hurdle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1794","title":{"rendered":"My book clears a hurdle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My book manuscript (Florida&#8217;s Greatest Menace, Evolution vs. Creationism in the Sunshine State) was sent to &#8220;external reviewers&#8221; for their analysis of my work several weeks ago. Their job was to tell the publisher whether my book was truly worth the effort to make. I got the review results today. They liked it, they really liked it! Of course, they had some good suggestions for improvement, but they thought it was a unique, quality work that the publisher should definitely run with. YAY! Now those reviews are presented to the publisher&#8217;s board for a final decision next month. Can&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My book manuscript (Florida&#8217;s Greatest Menace, Evolution vs. Creationism in the Sunshine State) was sent to &#8220;external reviewers&#8221; for their analysis of my work several weeks ago. Their job was to tell the publisher whether my book was truly worth &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1794\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-sW","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1830,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1830","url_meta":{"origin":1794,"position":0},"title":"It&#8217;s really happening!","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"March 3, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"It's official! 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