{"id":455,"date":"2019-07-12T06:50:16","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T13:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=455"},"modified":"2019-07-11T18:16:13","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T01:16:13","slug":"trees-a-rooted-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/trees-a-rooted-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Trees: A Rooted History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/treesrootedhistory_0-595x808.jpg?resize=525%2C713&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"713\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9217\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Sd6Rqp\">Trees: A Rooted History<\/a><br \/>\nby Piotr Socha (Author \/ Illustrator), Wojciech Grajkowski (Author), and Anna Burgess (Translator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Go beyond the basics and explore the important roles trees play in our ecosystem, take an up-close-and-personal look at the parts of trees (from roots to leaves), and unpack the cultural impact of trees from classification systems (like family trees) to art forms (like bonsai trees). <em>Part botany, part history, part cultural anthropology!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/treesrootedhistory_09-595x407.jpg?resize=525%2C359&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"359\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9218\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/treesrootedhistory_10-595x407.jpg?resize=525%2C359&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"359\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9219\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/treesrootedhistory_51-595x407.jpg?resize=525%2C359&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"359\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9222\" \/><\/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 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trees: A Rooted History by Piotr Socha (Author \/ Illustrator), Wojciech Grajkowski (Author), and Anna Burgess (Translator) Booktalk: Go beyond the basics and explore the important roles trees play in our ecosystem, take an up-close-and-personal look at the parts of trees (from roots to leaves), and unpack the cultural impact of trees from classification systems &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/trees-a-rooted-history\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Trees: A Rooted History&#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-455","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-7l","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1025,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/palm-trees-at-the-north-pole\/","url_meta":{"origin":455,"position":0},"title":"Palm Trees at the North Pole","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"April 23, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Palm Trees at the North Pole: The Hot Truth About Climate Change by Marc ter Horst (Author), Wendy Panders (Illustrator), and Laura Watkinson (Translator) @ Amazon | Bookshop | IndieBound Booktalk: With facts about farting cows and cracking icebergs, tall windmills and fast electric cars, burly polar bears and cute\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;STEM Friday Round-up&quot;","block_context":{"text":"STEM Friday Round-up","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/category\/stem-friday-round-up\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/palmtreesatnorthpole-595x688.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/palmtreesatnorthpole-595x688.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/palmtreesatnorthpole-595x688.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":640,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/can-you-hear-the-trees-talking\/","url_meta":{"origin":455,"position":1},"title":"Can You Hear The Trees Talking?","author":"@roberta3","date":"December 6, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Time to check out an amazing new middle grade book, Can You Hear the Trees Talking?: Discovering the Hidden Life of the Forest by Peter Wohlleben. 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