{"id":4591,"date":"2010-08-27T07:40:32","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T11:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4591"},"modified":"2010-08-26T07:56:32","modified_gmt":"2010-08-26T11:56:32","slug":"its-alive-with-your-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4591","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Alive!  (With Your Help)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Lu Dunbar, the creator of <a href=\"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/?p=4091\">BANG! The Universe Verse<\/a>, is planning a sequel which will explore the origin and evolution of life on Earth.  Where BANG! was fine in black and white (being mostly about space), IT&#8217;S ALIVE! would be much more compelling in color.  Creating the required color illustrations will require an upgrade in Jamie&#8217;s technology, so he&#8217;s asking for the help of fans.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s set up a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1530028046\/its-alive-the-universe-verse-book-2-0\">Kickstarter website<\/a> with a short video explaining his needs, and a button to donate.  There&#8217;s something in it for you: If he raises the funds he needs, he&#8217;ll make the second book available as a free PDF on his site (which is what he did with the first one).<\/p>\n<p>Promoting solid information about evolution is never a bad thing; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kickstarter.com\/projects\/1530028046\/its-alive-the-universe-verse-book-2-0\">click over<\/a> and help a unicellular organism out.<\/p>\n<p><i>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/parentingbeyondbelief.com\/\">The Meming of Life<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie Lu Dunbar, the creator of BANG! The Universe Verse, is planning a sequel which will explore the origin and evolution of life on Earth. Where BANG! was fine in black and white (being mostly about space), IT&#8217;S ALIVE! would be much more compelling in color. Creating the required color illustrations will require an upgrade [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4591"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4628,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4591\/revisions\/4628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/other-worlds-cafe.com\/news\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}