{"id":1853,"date":"2025-04-07T05:51:38","date_gmt":"2025-04-07T12:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/?p=1853"},"modified":"2025-04-05T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T22:20:10","slug":"earth-our-home-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/earth-our-home-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Earth: Our Home Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/earthhomeplanetfc-960x1226.jpg?resize=525%2C670&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"670\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-23233\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Earth: Our Home Planet<\/em><br \/>\nby Bruce Betts (Author)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3R5lATO\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9798765626849\">Bookshop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> The third planet from the Sun, Earth is our home and the only planet we know of that holds life. Learn how Earth and the Moon orbit the Sun together, how continents form, and how the atmosphere protects. Then learn how satellites show us how Earth will change in the future. <\/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\/2025\/04\/earthhomeplanetint.jpg?resize=525%2C350&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23234\" \/> <\/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 Nonfiction Monday!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved. <em>(*bookstore affiliate<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earth: Our Home Planet by Bruce Betts (Author) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: The third planet from the Sun, Earth is our home and the only planet we know of that holds life. Learn how Earth and the Moon orbit the Sun together, how continents form, and how the atmosphere protects. Then learn how satellites &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/earth-our-home-planet\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Earth: Our Home Planet&#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-1853","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-tT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1520,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/nonfictionmonday\/one-world-24-hours-on-planet-earth\/","url_meta":{"origin":1853,"position":0},"title":"One World: 24 Hours on Planet Earth","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"April 17, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"One World: 24 Hours on Planet Earth by Nicola Davies (Author) and Jenni Desmond (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: Our planet is always turning. 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