{"id":508,"date":"2010-01-20T09:53:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/janisse-ray-in-moultrie-next-week.html"},"modified":"2010-01-20T09:53:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T14:53:20","slug":"janisse-ray-in-moultrie-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/janisse-ray-in-moultrie-next-week.html","title":{"rendered":"Janisse Ray in Moultrie next week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/a>\nJanisse Ray plans\nto speak in Moultrie and sign books.<\/a>\n
\nThe Georgia Center for the Book, with the support of the Georgia Humanities Council, is working with the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System and the Moultrie Chapter of the Georgia Conservancy to present a free public lecture and book-signing by Ray on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at 7 p.m., in the library auditorium.\n

\nRay was born in Baxley, Ga., and is an environmentalist activist, poet, a memoirist and the award-winning author of \u201cEcology of a Cracker Childhood.\u201d This book, a memoir about growing up on a junkyard in the ruined longleaf pine ecosystem of the Southeast, was published by Milkweed Editions in 1999.\n<\/blockquote>\nWhy should you care?\n\n<\/a>\n

\nRay has won a Southeastern Booksellers Award 1999, an American Book Award 2000, the Southern Environmental Law Center 2000 Award for Outstanding Writing, and a Southern Book Critics Circle Award 2000. \u201cEcology of a Cracker Childhood\u201d was a New York Times Notable Book and was chosen as the Book All Georgians Should Read.\n

\nAs an organizer and activist, she works to create sustainable communities, local food systems, a stable global climate, intact ecosystems, clean rivers, life-enhancing economies, and participatory democracy. She is a founding board member of Altamaha Riverkeeper and is on the board of the Environmental Leadership Center of Warren Wilson College and Satilla Riverkeeper.\n<\/blockquote>\nAre you tired of development trumps all?\nDo you like trees and home-grown vegetables?\nCome hear Janisse Ray!\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Janisse Ray plans to speak in Moultrie and sign books. The Georgia Center for the Book, with the support of the Georgia Humanities Council, is working with the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System and the Moultrie Chapter of the Georgia Conservancy to present a free public lecture and book-signing by Ray on Tuesday, Jan. 26, at […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7,65,66,68,40,43,12,36],"tags":[1687,1689,1690,2785,1447,2774,1593,1685,1686,47,2787,1096,1684,1691,1688,1692],"class_list":["post-508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-books","category-botany","category-development","category-economy","category-gardening","category-politics","category-silviculture","tag-altamaha-riverkeeper","tag-climate","tag-democracy","tag-development","tag-ecology-of-a-cracker-childhood","tag-economy","tag-ecosystem","tag-georgia-center-for-the-book","tag-georgia-conservancy","tag-janisse-ray","tag-longleaf","tag-moultrie","tag-moultrie-colquitt-county-library-system","tag-pinhook","tag-satilla-riverkeeper","tag-wildcard-quit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-8c","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}