{"id":1200,"date":"2020-12-15T12:04:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T20:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2021-02-04T13:26:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T21:26:15","slug":"naturalist-bob-pyle-headlines-next-wordfest-on-zoom-tuesday-nov-10-2020-7-8-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/naturalist-bob-pyle-headlines-next-wordfest-on-zoom-tuesday-nov-10-2020-7-8-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Naturalist-Poet Bob Pyle on WordFest-Zoom, Tuesday, December 8, 2020."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Watch the video of the December WordFest on Zoom below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"December 2020 WordFest on Zoom\" width=\"750\" height=\"422\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FjXcte4Z9fc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:23% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"731\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bob-Pyle-731x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-787 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bob-Pyle-731x1024.jpg 731w, https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bob-Pyle-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bob-Pyle-768x1075.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Bob-Pyle.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Naturalist, essayist and poet <strong>Robert Michael Pyle<\/strong>&nbsp;is now also the subject of &#8220;The Dark Divide,&#8221; a film based on his personal story.  Bob will talk about the making of the film and also read from <em><strong>The Tidewater Reach<\/strong><\/em>, a collection of his poetry accompanied by the photographs of <strong>Judy VanderMaten<\/strong> that celebrates the beauty, history and mystery of the lower Columbia River region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Bob is the author of more than 20 books, including&nbsp;<em><strong>Wintergreen<\/strong><\/em>,&nbsp;<strong><em>Sky Time in Grays River<\/em><\/strong>,&nbsp;<em><strong>Chasing Monarchs<\/strong><\/em>, and&nbsp;<strong><em>Where Bigfoot Walks<\/em><\/strong>. A Yale-trained ecologist, Guggenheim Fellow, and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Entomological Society, he lives in rural southwest Washington.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:44px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 23%\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"428\" height=\"606\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ed-Putka-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1054 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ed-Putka-2019.jpg 428w, https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Ed-Putka-2019-212x300.jpg 212w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 428px) 100vw, 428px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">Retired judge <strong>Ed Putka<\/strong> is one of our most popular presenters at WordFest. His stories may be tall tales about growing up in his Polish neighborhood in Cleveland, or fishing on the Kalama River, but they all reflect his humorist&#8217;s wit and underlying themes of the value of family, friendship and community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ed will be reading a new story in the second half of the program.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch the video of the December WordFest on Zoom below. Naturalist, essayist and poet Robert Michael Pyle&nbsp;is now also the subject of &#8220;The Dark Divide,&#8221; a film based on his personal story. Bob will talk about the making of the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/naturalist-bob-pyle-headlines-next-wordfest-on-zoom-tuesday-nov-10-2020-7-8-pm\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Naturalist-Poet Bob Pyle on WordFest-Zoom, Tuesday, December 8, 2020.<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-past-events","category-zoom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1200"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1200\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}