{"id":3806,"date":"2025-02-21T20:31:24","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:31:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/?post_type=mec-events&#038;p=3806"},"modified":"2025-02-21T20:34:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:34:52","slug":"between-the-lines-book-club-reads-this-other-eden-2","status":"publish","type":"mec-events","link":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/events\/between-the-lines-book-club-reads-this-other-eden-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Lines Book Club reads \u201cThis Other Eden\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in joining a book club? Try our Between the Lines Book Club! We have three different sessions including afternoons and an evening to ensure there\u2019s a time that works for you! Did we mention there\u2019s FREE refreshments?<\/p>\n<p>This month we\u2019ll be discussing \u201cThis Other Eden\u201d by Paul Harding! Stop by the Aurora or Dillsboro Library to pick up your copy today!<\/p>\n<p>Aurora: Tuesday, April 1st @ 6 pm<\/p>\n<p>Aurora: Thursday, April 3rd @ 1 pm<\/p>\n<p>Dillsboro: Friday, April 4<sup>th<\/sup> @ 1 pm<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBenjamin Honey- American, Bantu, Igbo- born enslaved- freed or fled at fifteen- aspiring orchardist, arrived on the island with his Irish wife, Patience, and discovered they could make a life together there. More than a century later, the Honeys&#8217; descendants remain, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbors. Then comes the intrusion of &#8216;civilization&#8217;: officials determine to &#8216;cleanse&#8217; the island, and a missionary schoolteacher selects one light-skinned boy to save. The rest will succumb to the authorities&#8217; institutions or cast themselves on the waters in a new Noah&#8217;s Ark.\u201d -Goodreads<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interested in joining a book club? Try our Between the Lines Book Club! We have three different sessions including afternoons and an evening to ensure there\u2019s a time that works for you! Did we mention there\u2019s FREE refreshments? This month we\u2019ll be discussing \u201cThis Other Eden\u201d by Paul Harding! Stop by the Aurora or Dillsboro [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[252],"mec_category":[6],"class_list":["post-3806","mec-events","type-mec-events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-adult-book-club","mec_category-adult-programs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events\/3806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec-events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/mec-events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3806"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3806"},{"taxonomy":"mec_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eapld.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/mec_category?post=3806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}