{"id":458,"date":"2012-02-23T09:50:57","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T13:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/?p=458"},"modified":"2012-02-23T09:50:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T13:50:57","slug":"thursday-23-february-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/02\/23\/thursday-23-february-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 23 February 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000099; font-family: Arial;\">08:50 &#8211;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\"> Brian Jepson sent a PDF yesterday of the first half of the biology book, just to show us how the layout looked. As always, it&#8217;s gorgeous. The O&#8217;Reilly\/MAKE design\/layout folks are top-notch.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">My only substantive suggestion was to change the theme color from blue to green. The chemistry book is blue. Biology should be green, or as I told Brian, quoting Simon &#038; Garfunkel, a &#8220;deep forest green&#8221;. And forensics should be a maroon or similar subdued red.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial;\">Speaking of the forensics book, Brian also told me he&#8217;d gotten the go-ahead on it. That means I&#8217;ll be spending the next three months re-writing the original manuscript to make it kit-based. At this point, we&#8217;re shooting to have the forensics book in bookstores in August, in time for the autumn semester. That&#8217;s really pushing it, but we can do it.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 65%; height: 3px; font-family: Arial;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08:50 &#8211; Brian Jepson sent a PDF yesterday of the first half of the biology book, just to show us how the layout looked. As always, it&#8217;s gorgeous. The O&#8217;Reilly\/MAKE design\/layout folks are top-notch.\n<\/p>\n<p>My only substantive suggestion was to change the theme color from blue to green. The chemistry book is blue. Biology should be green, or as I told Brian, quoting Simon &#038; Garfunkel, a &#8220;deep forest green&#8221;. And forensics should be a maroon or similar subdued red.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/2012\/02\/23\/thursday-23-february-2012\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Thursday, 23 February 2012 &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-kits","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/458\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ttgnet.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}