{"id":1329,"date":"2013-05-06T06:30:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T13:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2013-04-23T14:02:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T21:02:41","slug":"a-modern-home-scholar-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/2013\/05\/06\/a-modern-home-scholar-13\/","title":{"rendered":"A Modern Famous Home Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Margaret Atwood<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.superscholar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/margaret-atwood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Margaret Atwood\" src=\"http:\/\/www.superscholar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/margaret-atwood.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"350\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Few contemporary writers are as well known or highly regarded\u00a0as Margaret Atwood. What is not well known is that\u00a0the Canadian novelist, poet, and\u00a0literary critic was home schooled through the sixth grade. Atwood spent much of her childhood following her dad around the\u00a0backwoods of Northern Quebec, where he worked as a forest entomologist, learning to be at home in nature and to learn naturally at home.\u00a0A long-time environmental activist and vegetarian, no doubt the time in the woods with her father played a role in igniting\u00a0Atwood\u2019s love of animals and the environment.\u00a0Atwood\u2019s\u00a0latest\u00a0novel,\u00a0<em>The Year of the Flood\u00a0<\/em>(2009),\u00a0envisions the future emergence of a new environmentally rooted science\/religion hybrid in the wake of a massive ecological disaster\u00a0caused by genetic engineering experiments. The book contains several religious hymns written by Atwood, who has indicated that\u00a0her own religious beliefs\u00a0are\u00a0similar to those\u00a0displayed\u00a0in the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Margaret Atwood Few contemporary writers are as well known or highly regarded\u00a0as Margaret Atwood. What is not well known is that\u00a0the Canadian novelist, poet, and\u00a0literary critic was home schooled through the sixth grade. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1387,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/1387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arkansashomeschool.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}