{"id":433,"date":"2019-10-28T20:54:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T20:54:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/?p=433"},"modified":"2019-10-28T20:57:57","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T20:57:57","slug":"rising-selected-for-ucsb-reads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/?p=433","title":{"rendered":"RISING selected for UCSB Reads"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An advisory committee made up of faculty, staff and students selected\u00a0<em>Rising<\/em>\u00a0for this year\u2019s book, noting the power and relevance of the book\u2019s stories about the people and communities most at risk from sea level rise. Rush demonstrates how race, class, national origin and income levels further exacerbate vulnerability to rising seas.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Describing\u00a0<em>Rising: Dispatches from the New American Shore<\/em>\u00a0as \u201cthe book on climate change and sea levels that was missing,\u201d\u00a0<em>The Chicago Tribune<\/em>\u00a0writes: \u201cRush travels from vanishing shorelines in New England to hurting fishing communities to retracting islands and, with empathy and elegance, conveys what it means to lose a world in slow motion. Picture the working-class empathy of Studs Terkel paired with the heartbreak of a poet.\u201d\u00a0<em>Pacific Standard<\/em>\u00a0calls the book \u201ca revelation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/guides.library.ucsb.edu\/ucsbreads2020\">here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An advisory committee made up of faculty, staff and students selected\u00a0Rising\u00a0for this year\u2019s book, noting the power and relevance of the book\u2019s stories about the people and communities most at risk from sea level rise. Rush demonstrates how race, class, national origin and income levels further exacerbate vulnerability to rising seas.\u00a0 Describing\u00a0Rising: Dispatches from the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/?p=433\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RISING selected for UCSB Reads&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":434,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethrush.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}