{"id":1997,"date":"2015-07-27T08:21:02","date_gmt":"2015-07-27T13:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2015-07-27T08:21:02","modified_gmt":"2015-07-27T13:21:02","slug":"katherine-holmes-76","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/2015\/07\/katherine-holmes-76\/","title":{"rendered":"Katherine Holmes \u201976"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><h2><a name=\"KatherineHolmes_N\"><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classhomepages\/files\/2014\/12\/76_KatherineHolmes_N.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-177 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/classhomepages\/files\/2014\/12\/76_KatherineHolmes_N-150x143.jpg\" alt=\"76_KatherineHolmes_N\" width=\"150\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a>Katherine Holmes has released a new book, <em>Josiah\u2019s Apple Orchard<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides music, Vivvy loves green apples. She and her brother Matt go on morning apple raids until, one fall, their father drives them to a pick-your-own orchard. The cross old Josiah inhabits another time where pixies might appear like uprooted saplings. In the early, eventful 1960s, Vivvy takes the flute from Mr. Fortray, a band teacher who plays jazz. Detours confuse another apple picking trip and Josiah is angry about progress. Yet if Vivvy wants to do what she loves, she must think beyond a fear that her father and Josiah share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A native of Minnesota, Katherine L. Holmes holds an M.A. in Writing from the University of Minnesota. Her first published book, <em>The House in Windward Leaves<\/em>, placed as Finalist in both the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and the National Indie Excellence Book Awards.\u00a0 Her middle grade novel, <em>The Wide Awake Loons<\/em>, was published in 2013 by Silver Knight Publishing, LLC and placed as Finalist in the 2014 Next Generation Book Awards.\u00a0 A short story collection, <em>Curiosity Killed the Sphinx and Other Stories<\/em>, was published in 2012 by Hollywood Books International. More information is available at her <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.google.com\/site\/katherinelholmesauthorprofile\/\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Katherine Holmes has released a new book, Josiah\u2019s Apple Orchard. \u201cBesides music, Vivvy loves green apples. She and her brother Matt go on morning apple raids until, one fall, their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[64],"class_list":["post-1997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-46","tag-news"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}