{"id":391,"date":"2020-12-01T00:21:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T00:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/?p=391"},"modified":"2020-12-01T00:21:13","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T00:21:13","slug":"get-ready-for-our-december-book-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/2020\/12\/01\/get-ready-for-our-december-book-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Get ready for our December Book Club!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/entangled_life-1-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/entangled_life-1-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/entangled_life-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/entangled_life-1-270x152.jpg 270w, https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/entangled_life-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/entangled_life-1-1110x624.jpg 1110w, https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/entangled_life-1-528x297.jpg 528w, https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/entangled_life-1.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Marcus Aurelius said in his Meditations, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-style-default is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things that exist; observe too, the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I\u2019m reminded of this passage after diving into the choice for our upcoming book club <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/ChiTownBio\/events\/274534056\/\">meeting<\/a>. We\u2019ve chosen \u201cEntangled Life\u201d by Merlin Sheldrake to discuss, and I just got my copy. I quickly read the Introduction and Sheldrake has eagerly embraced the theme of the late emperor. He sets the stage to pose fungi as the threads that join all life on Earth together, and gives a number of fascinating examples of cooperating causes with fungi at center stage. I\u2019m looking forward to seeing where Sheldrake goes from here, and wonder if he can detect that one movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There\u2019s still time to pick up your copy of Merlin Sheldrake\u2019s \u201cEntangled Life\u201d! Join us on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/ChiTownBio\/events\/274534056\/\">December 12th<\/a>  as we discuss the book and consider how fungi interact with us and the world, how they can help shape our sustainable future, and anything else that piques your interest as you read through the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Aurelius said in his Meditations, Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":392,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-upcoming-meetings","tag-book-club"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/entangled_life.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":396,"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions\/396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chitownbio.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}