{"id":558772,"date":"2026-04-01T19:19:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/558772\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T19:19:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T19:19:08","slug":"why-we-become-attached-to-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/558772\/","title":{"rendered":"Why we become attached to trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"TYVQESW3JZG7PKWMWE73DHSQB4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">RJ Laverne\u2019s childhood home in Detroit had a big elm out front. In fact, the whole neighborhood was lined with them: great, graceful trees whose branches spread across the street to create a shady canopy. Elms were so widely planted in cities and suburbs in the 19th and 20th centuries that they became known as the \u201cMain Street tree.\u201d Then, in the 1930s, Dutch elm disease began to ravage them, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1989\/12\/05\/science\/new-varieties-of-elm-raise-hope-of-rebirth-for-davastated-tree.html?sec=health&amp;spon=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">by 1989<\/a>, most of America\u2019s 77 million mature elms were dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RJ Laverne\u2019s childhood home in Detroit had a big elm out front. In fact, the whole neighborhood was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":558773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":{"0":"post-558772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-environment","9":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/558773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}