{"id":480,"date":"2008-02-25T13:59:43","date_gmt":"2008-02-25T18:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danversreads.wordpress.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2008-02-25T13:59:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-25T18:59:43","slug":"for-birdlovers-and-booklovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/?p=480","title":{"rendered":"For Birdlovers and Booklovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/02\/skies.gif\" title=\"skies.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/danversreads.files.wordpress.com\/2008\/02\/skies.thumbnail.gif\" alt=\"skies.gif\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Jacki Lydon did an interesting\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=19320179\" target=\"_blank\">interview<\/a> with Jonathan Rosen author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Life-Skies-Jonathan-Rosen\/dp\/0374186308\/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1203965794&amp;sr=1-1\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature<\/i><\/a> last night on NPR. Rosen is an urban birdwatcher, novelist and contributer to <i>The New Yorker<\/i>. Here are two excerpts:<\/p>\n<p><i>Rosen contends that everyone is a birdwatcher. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says that 47.8 million Americans call themselves bird watchers. Rosen says playfully that while some people admit to being bird watchers, or even &#8220;bird dweebs,&#8221; others don&#8217;t yet know that they are moved by birds. Rosen&#8217;s book will soon make a believer out of you. <\/i><br \/>\n<i> Each chapter of <i>The Life of the Skies<\/i> cites a poet or an artist, and there are beautiful poems and contemplations embedded throughout the book. His title comes from a poem by D.H. Lawrence who declared that &#8220;birds are the life of the skies, and when they fly, they reveal the thoughts of the skies.&#8221; <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacki Lydon did an interesting\u00a0 interview with Jonathan Rosen author of Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature last night on NPR. Rosen is an urban birdwatcher, novelist and contributer to The New Yorker. Here are two excerpts: Rosen contends that everyone is a birdwatcher. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6V6sR-7K","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danverslibrary.org\/readthis\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}