{"id":103,"date":"2009-05-29T07:03:19","date_gmt":"2009-05-29T07:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=103"},"modified":"2009-05-29T07:03:19","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T07:03:19","slug":"michael-pollan-comes-to-ubc-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/michael-pollan-comes-to-ubc-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Pollan Comes to UBC Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/images\/old\/6a00d8341f728c53ef011570af7dee970b-800wi.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Michael-pollan-190\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d8341f728c53ef011570af7dee970b \" src=\"\/images\/old\/6a00d8341f728c53ef011570af7dee970b-250wi.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; width: 240px;\" \/><\/a> <strong>This guy is a real local hero<\/strong>, but on the international stage.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelpollan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Pollan<\/a> is the author of two fantastic books I&#39;ve recommended on this blog before, <em>The Omnivore&#39;s Dilemma<\/em> and <em>In Defense of Food<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next Saturday, June 6th<\/strong>, Michael Pollan will make a special appearance at the UBC Farm in Vancouver.&#0160; The current status of the farm is up in the air. It&#39;s a beautiful, productive piece of farmland in the middle of the city but its future is being threatened by urban style development on the UBC Campus.&#0160; <\/p>\n<p><strong>You should know<\/strong> that Pollan&#39;s appearance at the farm is a fundraising effort, his only public appearance in Canada slated for this year and your ticket price includes a copy of In Defense of Food.&#0160; Oh, and that this whole thing came together courtesy of the brilliant scheming of Barbara-jo McIntosh of Barbara-jo&#39;s Books to Cooks.&#0160; Much more info on the fundraiser and the farm is<a href=\"http:\/\/friendsoftheubcfarm.wordpress.com\/2009\/03\/31\/michael-pollan-live-at-ubc-farm-june-6\/\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This guy is a real local hero, but on the international stage.&#0160; Michael Pollan is the author of two fantastic books I&#39;ve recommended on this blog before, The Omnivore&#39;s Dilemma and In Defense of Food. Next Saturday, June 6th, Michael &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/michael-pollan-comes-to-ubc-farm\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}