{"id":954,"date":"2022-04-02T15:45:32","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T21:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?p=954"},"modified":"2022-04-02T15:45:32","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T21:45:32","slug":"march-and-april","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"March and April"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On March 7 we discussed Gary Paul Nabhan&#8217;s <em>Mesquite, an Arboreal Love Affair<\/em>. How to describe this book? Petey Mesquitey (a nom de plume) wrote in the Foreword: &#8220;So you are about to go on a marvelous mesquite journey filled with stories that will sometimes have you belly laughing, sometimes have you thinking maybe you&#8217;re working on your thesis, or maybe even striking a chord that makes you quietly weep &#8230;&#8221; And that really summarizes this book. Read the longer report of our discussion and interesting links <a href=\"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?page_id=951\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The hybrid meeting seems to be working well for us. It&#8217;s great that our travelling members plus the occasional new out-of-town friend can join us so easily.<\/p>\n<p>On April 4 we&#8217;ll be discussing Sumana Roy&#8217;s <em>How I Became a Tree<\/em>. All I can say is what&#8217;s not to like about a book whose opening lines are: &#8220;At first it was the underwear. I wanted to become a tree because trees did not wear bras.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On March 7 we discussed Gary Paul Nabhan&#8217;s Mesquite, an Arboreal Love Affair. How to describe this book? Petey Mesquitey (a nom de plume) wrote in the Foreword: &#8220;So you are about to go on a marvelous mesquite journey filled &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?p=954\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":956,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions\/956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}