{"id":6281,"date":"2019-06-18T09:10:02","date_gmt":"2019-06-18T14:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/?p=6281"},"modified":"2019-06-18T14:21:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-18T19:21:18","slug":"overstory-richard-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/?p=6281","title":{"rendered":"Overstory\/Richard Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com\/images\/I\/51EpM2WuOiL._SL160_.jpg\" width=\"69\" height=\"105\" \/>An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. These four, and five other strangers\u2015each summoned in different ways by trees\u2015are brought together in a last and violent stand to save the continent\u2019s few remaining acres of virgin forest.<\/p>\n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Air Force loadmaster in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan. An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6298,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6281\/revisions\/6298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.gilbertsvillefreelibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}