{"id":19,"date":"2024-10-09T01:02:46","date_gmt":"2024-10-09T01:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867379\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2026-01-31T08:00:02","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T08:00:02","slug":"about-the-author","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/about-the-author\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT THE AUTHOR"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Hi, I\u2019m Dr. Timothy Dale White. Author. Professor. Street-level humanitarian. Dumpster poet. Retired pastor and, most importantly, grandpa. Just trying to leave the world a little kinder than I found it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br>I began writing <em>The Original Human Beings<\/em> over forty years ago while working on projects to help children living in Central African and Central American slums survive and thrive. Since then, I\u2019ve worked with recyclers living in garbage dumps, refugees, orphans, and some of the bravest souls I\u2019ve ever known.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Technically, I started penning the book in 2016\u2014and I\u2019ve worked night and day on it, putting in over 10,000 hours. (Yes, my wife has been counting.) I guess you could call this novel a dream or maybe an addiction of the heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Sure, I\u2019ve earned two doctorates\u2014including one from Fuller Seminary\u2014but don\u2019t worry. This book isn\u2019t for Christians. It is for everyone. It\u2019s for anyone who believes being human still matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br>As a Christian, I\u2019m commanded to love my neighbor. And who\u2019s my neighbor? Everyone. That truth is at the heart of this story. I\u2019ve seen it echoed in atheism, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and just about every sincere philosophy I\u2019ve encountered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><br>This novel is for all of us. In an age of rising inhumanity, it\u2019s a call to remember what it means to be human.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, I\u2019m Dr. Timothy Dale White. Author. Professor. Street-level humanitarian. Dumpster poet. Retired pastor and, most importantly, grandpa. Just trying to leave the world a little kinder than I found it. I began writing The Original Human Beings over forty years ago while working on projects to help children living in Central African and Central American slums survive and thrive. Since then, I\u2019ve worked with recyclers living in garbage dumps, refugees, orphans,&#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/about-the-author\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-full.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":213,"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/authorwebservices-gem2.net\/ArchwayPublishing\/867716\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}