{"id":251,"date":"2012-07-02T16:32:14","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T16:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stoneskin.wpengine.com\/?p=251"},"modified":"2020-03-03T00:31:11","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T00:31:11","slug":"the-lion-and-the-aardvark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/the-lion-and-the-aardvark\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lion and The Aardvark"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1739 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/\/nas\/content\/live\/stoneskin\/uploads\/The-Lion-and-the-Aardvark_Aesops-Modern-Fables-front-cover_350-197x300.png\" alt=\"The Lion and the Aardvark_Aesops Modern Fables front cover_350\" width=\"197\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/\/nas\/content\/live\/stoneskin\/uploads\/The-Lion-and-the-Aardvark_Aesops-Modern-Fables-front-cover_350-197x300.png 197w, http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/\/nas\/content\/live\/stoneskin\/uploads\/The-Lion-and-the-Aardvark_Aesops-Modern-Fables-front-cover_350-100x152.png 100w, http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/\/nas\/content\/live\/stoneskin\/uploads\/The-Lion-and-the-Aardvark_Aesops-Modern-Fables-front-cover_350-150x228.png 150w, http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/\/nas\/content\/live\/stoneskin\/uploads\/The-Lion-and-the-Aardvark_Aesops-Modern-Fables-front-cover_350-200x304.png 200w, http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/\/nas\/content\/live\/stoneskin\/uploads\/The-Lion-and-the-Aardvark_Aesops-Modern-Fables-front-cover_350-300x456.png 300w, http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/\/nas\/content\/live\/stoneskin\/uploads\/The-Lion-and-the-Aardvark_Aesops-Modern-Fables-front-cover_350.png 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 197px) 100vw, 197px\" \/>Aesop&#8217;s Modern Fables<\/h3>\n<p>These confusing times of Internet trolls, one-percenters, toxic fame, and impending singularity cry out for clarity\u2014the clarity found in Aesop\u2019s 2,500 year old fables.<\/p>\n<p>70 writers from across the creative spectrum bring their modern sensibilities to this classic format. Zombies, dog-men and robot wasps mingle with cats, coyotes and cockroaches. Parables ranging from the punchy to the evocative, the wry to the disturbing, explore eternal human foibles, as displaced onto lemmings, trout, and racing cars. But beware\u2014 in these terse explorations of desire, envy, and power, certitude isn\u2019t always as clear as it looks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Authors include&#8230;<\/strong><br \/>\nRobert Jackson Bennett, Jason L. Blair, Jesse Bullington, Jim Demonakos, Ray Fawkes, Matt Forbeck, Ed Greenwood, Dave Gross, Tania Hershman, Jonathan L. Howard, Stephen Graham Jones, John Kovalic, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Adam Marek, Sandy Petersen, JT Petty, Wena Poon, Richard Scarsbrook, Ekaterina Sedia, Greg Stafford, Chuck Wendig, Jim Zubkavich &amp; more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication Date: <\/strong>1 Nov 2012<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN-13<\/strong>: 9781908983022<br \/>\n<strong>Price<\/strong>: \u00a39.99<br \/>\n<strong>Format<\/strong>: B Format &#8211; 198x129mm<br \/>\n<strong>Binding<\/strong>: Hardback<br \/>\n<strong>Extent<\/strong>: 229 pages<br \/>\n<strong>ebook<\/strong>: Available<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aesop&#8217;s Modern Fables These confusing times of Internet trolls, one-percenters, toxic fame, and impending singularity cry out for clarity\u2014the clarity found in Aesop\u2019s 2,500 year old fables. 70 writers from across the creative spectrum bring their modern sensibilities to this<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/the-lion-and-the-aardvark\/\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-the-lion-and-the-aardvark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stoneskinpress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}