{"id":2179,"date":"2014-07-21T21:03:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T01:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=2179"},"modified":"2014-07-21T21:03:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T01:03:35","slug":"sticking-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2179","title":{"rendered":"Sticking with it"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have a guest blog post published at the Florida Heritage Book Festival website: The Evolution of Going Ape<\/a>. I talk about how the idea for Going Ape started off as a mere curiosity and over the course of a few years developed into a published book. It was a hard, exhausting and sometimes frustrating experience over the years, but I’m so glad I stuck with it.<\/p>\n

I was invited to write the guest post because I’m one of the featured authors who will be giving a talk at the Book Festival in September!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have a guest blog post published at the Florida Heritage Book Festival website: The Evolution of Going Ape. I talk about how the idea for Going Ape started off as a mere curiosity and over the course of a … Continue reading →<\/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-z9","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2113,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2113","url_meta":{"origin":2179,"position":0},"title":"“Going Ape” and “Filthy Dreamers”","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 24, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I hope I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see some of you this Saturday when I give a talk about my book \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Going Ape: Florida's Battles over Evolution in the Classroom\u00e2\u20ac\u009d after a screening of the documentary \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Filthy Dreamers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. 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Evolution in the Sunshine State \"Brandon Haught, formerly a Marine Corps combat correspondent and currently public information officer with the Volusia County, Florida, Sheriff\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Office, has produced a very well-researched, well-written book on the\u2026","rel":"","context":"Similar post","block_context":{"text":"Similar post","link":""},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2177,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2177","url_meta":{"origin":2179,"position":2},"title":"Going Ape in Orlando Sentinel","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"July 16, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Thank you to Orlando Sentinel reporter Leslie Postal for the nice story on me and Going Ape: Florida's Battles over Evolution in the Classroom! 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