{"id":3211,"date":"2015-05-18T06:53:38","date_gmt":"2015-05-18T06:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?p=3211"},"modified":"2015-05-18T07:04:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-18T07:04:44","slug":"book-launch-the-english-love-affair-with-nature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/book-launch-the-english-love-affair-with-nature\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Launch: The English Love Affair with Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3212\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3212\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCN3647-The-author-reading-in-the-book-launch.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCN3647-The-author-reading-in-the-book-launch-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The author reading under a Birch tree during the book launch\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCN3647-The-author-reading-in-the-book-launch-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCN3647-The-author-reading-in-the-book-launch-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3212\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The author reading under a Birch tree during the book launch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>We were fortunate yesterday to have bright dry weather for the book launch of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/book\/\"><em>The English Love Affair with Nature<\/em><\/a>, generously hosted by London Wildlife Trust.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3216\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3216\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCN3643-Book-launch-in-Gunnersbury-Triangle.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCN3643-Book-launch-in-Gunnersbury-Triangle-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Book launch in Gunnersbury Triangle\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCN3643-Book-launch-in-Gunnersbury-Triangle-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/DSCN3643-Book-launch-in-Gunnersbury-Triangle-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3216\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Book launch in Gunnersbury Triangle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I read sections from the Introduction, Art, and Gardening chapters, with an encore from Spiritual Rebels. The audience took a few minutes, in pairs, to share three things they personally loved about nature. I was kept busy signing copies. Everyone seemed to be enjoying the event, at least they laughed at the jokes and clapped unexpectedly at the end. And everyone lent a hand tidying up, so it all felt very friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were fortunate yesterday to have bright dry weather for the book launch of The English Love Affair with Nature, generously hosted by London Wildlife Trust. I read sections from the Introduction, Art, and Gardening chapters, with an encore from Spiritual Rebels. The audience took a few minutes, in pairs, to share three things they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/18\/book-launch-the-english-love-affair-with-nature\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book Launch: The English Love Affair with Nature<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[764,769,712,13],"class_list":["post-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks","tag-book-launch","tag-english-love-affair-with-nature","tag-gunnersbury-triangle","tag-london-wildlife-trust"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}