{"id":1330,"date":"2022-05-16T05:50:45","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T12:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2022-05-15T15:23:22","modified_gmt":"2022-05-15T22:23:22","slug":"a-rose-named-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/a-rose-named-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rose Named Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rosenamedpeace-595x663.jpg?resize=525%2C585&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"585\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17414\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>A Rose Named Peace: How Francis Meilland Created a Flower of Hope for a World at War<\/em><br \/>\nby Barbara Carroll Roberts (Author) and Bagram Ibatoulline (Illustrator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3yyAFVU\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781536208436\">Bookshop<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781536208436?aff=anasuen09\">IndieBound<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Francis Meilland was passionate about roses. He loved their rich perfume, their buds unfurling in the summer sun, and their petals, soft as lambs\u2019 ears. Like his father and grandfather before him, Francis cultivated flowers on the family farm in France. In his teens, he set about grafting and experimenting, determined to create a rose no one had seen before, and as the world braced for World War II, he rushed cuttings to rose-growing friends around the globe. Six patient years later, word reached him: his rose had not only flourished; people were calling it the Peace Rose. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/rosenamedpeace1-595x328.jpg?resize=525%2C289&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"289\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17413\" \/> <\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6536\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/nonfiction.monday.jpg?resize=158%2C111\" alt=\"Nonfiction Monday\" width=\"158\" height=\"111\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nonfiction Monday!<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rose Named Peace: How Francis Meilland Created a Flower of Hope for a World at War by Barbara Carroll Roberts (Author) and Bagram Ibatoulline (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: Francis Meilland was passionate about roses. He loved their rich perfume, their buds unfurling in the summer sun, and their petals, soft &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/a-rose-named-peace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Rose Named Peace&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nonfiction-monday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pam6qm-ls","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":281,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/abraham-lincoln-the-making-of-america\/","url_meta":{"origin":1330,"position":0},"title":"Abraham Lincoln: The Making of America","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"February 4, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Abraham Lincoln: The Making of America #3 by Teri Kanefield (Author) Booktalk: Born in a cabin deep in the backwoods of Kentucky, growing up in a family considered \"the poorest of the poor,\" Lincoln rose to become the sixteenth president of the United States. 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