{"id":767,"date":"2020-05-01T06:50:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T13:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=767"},"modified":"2020-04-30T15:45:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T22:45:37","slug":"flower-power-the-magic-of-natures-healers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/flower-power-the-magic-of-natures-healers\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Power: The Magic of Nature&#8217;s Healers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flowerpower_0-595x801.jpg?resize=525%2C707&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"707\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11372\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9783791373997?aff=anasuen09\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.indiebound.org\/files\/indiebound\/images\/banners\/indiesRed2_161x41_10-26-15.png?w=525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Support Independent Bookstores - Visit IndieBound.org\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2yil8gb\">Flower Power: The Magic of Nature&#8217;s Healers<\/a><br \/>\nby Christine Paxmann (Author) and Olaf Hajek (Illustrator) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> Take on a magical journey through the world of healing flowers. Explore cultural and medicinal aspects of 17 different flowers as well as their importance to artists, writers, and healers.<\/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\/2020\/04\/flowerpower_2-595x400.jpg?resize=525%2C353&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11374\" \/><br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/flowerpower_3-595x400.jpg?resize=525%2C353&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"353\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-11377\" \/><\/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 2020 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flower Power: The Magic of Nature&#8217;s Healers by Christine Paxmann (Author) and Olaf Hajek (Illustrator) Booktalk: Take on a magical journey through the world of healing flowers. Explore cultural and medicinal aspects of 17 different flowers as well as their importance to artists, writers, and healers. Snippet: It&#8217;s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/flower-power-the-magic-of-natures-healers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flower Power: The Magic of Nature&#8217;s Healers&#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-767","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-cn","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1632,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/the-bee-mother\/","url_meta":{"origin":767,"position":0},"title":"The Bee Mother","author":"Anastasia Suen","date":"May 31, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"The Bee Mother (Mothers of Xsan) by Hetxw\u2019ms Gyetxw Brett D. 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