{"id":1525,"date":"2023-09-15T04:44:49","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T11:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=1525"},"modified":"2023-09-14T14:45:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-14T21:45:34","slug":"rise-to-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/rise-to-the-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise to the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/rise2skyfc.jpg?resize=402%2C475&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"402\" height=\"475\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20226\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Rise to the Sky: How the World&#8217;s Tallest Trees Grow Up<\/em><br \/>\nby Rebecca E. Hirsch (Author) and Mia Posada (Illustrator)<br \/>\n<em>@ <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3PdxUQu\">Amazon<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/a\/6037\/9781728440873\">Bookshop<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> What is the tallest living thing? It\u2019s not an elephant, or a giraffe, or even a blue whale. It\u2019s a tree! But how do they grow to be so tall?   <\/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\/2023\/09\/rise2skyint.jpg?resize=525%2C321&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"321\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-20227\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2023 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rise to the Sky: How the World&#8217;s Tallest Trees Grow Up by Rebecca E. Hirsch (Author) and Mia Posada (Illustrator) @ Amazon | Bookshop Booktalk: What is the tallest living thing? It\u2019s not an elephant, or a giraffe, or even a blue whale. It\u2019s a tree! But how do they grow to be so tall? &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/rise-to-the-sky\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Rise to the Sky&#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-1525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-oB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":544,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/the-forest-in-the-trees\/","url_meta":{"origin":1525,"position":0},"title":"The Forest in the Trees","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"September 27, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"The Forest in the Trees by Connie McLennan (Author \/ Illustrator) Booktalk: It\u2019s common knowledge that coast redwoods are tall, tall trees. 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