{"id":24424,"date":"2017-08-24T19:57:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T00:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24424"},"modified":"2017-08-24T19:57:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T00:57:10","slug":"e-o-wilsons-anthill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/24\/e-o-wilsons-anthill\/","title":{"rendered":"E.O. Wilson&#8217;s Anthill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B003CTEFMK\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B003CTEFMK&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=819c44d9909fda27bf038e1f4643f654\">Anthill: A Novel<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B003CTEFMK\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Winner of the 2010 Heartland Prize, Anthill follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, enthralled with the &#8220;strange, beautiful, and elegant&#8221; world of his native Nokobee County. But as developers begin to threaten the endangered marshlands around which he lives, the book\u2019s hero decides to take decisive action. Edward O. Wilson\u2014the world\u2019s greatest living biologist\u2014elegantly balances glimpses of science with the gripping saga of a boy determined to save the world from its most savage ecological predator: man himself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I bring this up now because the Kindle version is, at the moment, two bucks!  A tiny price to pay for a big novel about tiny ants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthill: A Novel Winner of the 2010 Heartland Prize, Anthill follows the thrilling adventures of a modern-day Huck Finn, enthralled with the &#8220;strange, beautiful, and elegant&#8221; world of his native Nokobee County. But as developers begin to threaten the endangered marshlands around which he lives, the book\u2019s hero decides to take decisive action. Edward O. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/08\/24\/e-o-wilsons-anthill\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">E.O. Wilson&#8217;s Anthill<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1329,971,40,1320,1330],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6lW","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24424"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}