{"id":5047,"date":"2013-10-02T09:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sylva.org.uk\/blog\/?p=5047"},"modified":"2013-10-02T09:00:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T08:00:45","slug":"latest-news-in-creating-the-new-sylva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/latest-news-in-creating-the-new-sylva\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest news in creating The New Sylva"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5050\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5050\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5050 \" title=\"The New Sylva\" alt=\"The New Sylva\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sylva.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/frontpage_anigif.gif\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5050\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New Sylva, Bloomsbury Publishing<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>The New Sylva<\/em> book, due for release in April 2014, is nearing completion. According to authors Gabriel Hemery and Sarah Simblet, writing in their blog this week, copy-editing is now complete and they are working hard to meeting the printing deadline of the end of November.<\/p>\n<p>Their latest post was written by a guest contributor; copy-editor Rachael Oakden:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Back in March 2013, I have to confess, I had a preconception of The New Sylva as being a beautifully illustrated book about British trees. It was only when I read the opening chapters that I understood the book\u2019s more complex and ambitious purpose: to be a celebration of the art and science of forestry, with an urgent environmental message.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She also revealed how working on the book has opened up her heart and mind to the concept of our wood culture:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;On one recent outing, my young son asked me why I was hugging an oak tree. Well, obviously, I was attempting to estimate its dbh (diameter at breast height) and wondering who planted it, when they planted it, and for what purpose.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Sylvan reflections by copy-editor Rachael Oakden\" href=\"http:\/\/newsylva.com\/2013\/09\/29\/sylvan-reflections-by-copy-editor-rachael-oakden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more from Rachael Oakden on The New Sylva blog<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>The New Sylva<\/em> is sponsored by the Sylva Foundation. We have donated a future copy of the book to our friends at Small Woods as a prize for anyone entering their online survey: <a title=\"Small Woods survey - take part and enter prize draw to win a copy of The New Sylva\" href=\"http:\/\/smallwoods.org.uk\/2013\/09\/take-part-in-our-survey-and-win-a-great-prize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Sylva book, due for release in April 2014, is nearing completion. The copy-editor writes about her experience working on the book &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5050,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[95,362],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/frontpage_anigif.gif","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sylva.org.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}