{"id":1247,"date":"2019-06-14T15:37:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2019-06-14T15:37:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T14:37:50","slug":"tree-hugger-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/06\/14\/tree-hugger-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tree Hugger (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;If you love trees, don&#8217;t read <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardpowers.net\/the-overstory\/\"><strong>The Overstory<\/strong><\/a><\/em><strong>:<\/strong> it will break your heart.\u00a0 I kept having to put it down to read something else.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, I love trees, and, yes, it breaks my heart, whether or not they are sentient (or essential in the support of planetary life). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wanton way we exploit and destroy trees, whether or not they are sentient, is of a piece with the wanton way we exploit and destroy animals (nonhuman and human) even though they are sentient. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We destroy art that way too (the Buddhist statues in Afghanistan) but there the only victims (if any) are the art\u2019s creators and admirers, not the art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;If you love trees, don&#8217;t read The Overstory: it will break your heart.\u00a0 I kept having to put it down to read something else.&#8221; Yes, I love trees, and, yes, it breaks my heart, whether or not they are sentient (or essential in the support of planetary life). The wanton way we exploit and destroy &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/2019\/06\/14\/tree-hugger-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tree Hugger (2)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3074,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/skywritings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}