{"id":43936,"date":"2020-10-07T20:22:23","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T00:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/?p=43936"},"modified":"2020-12-14T00:28:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T05:28:38","slug":"stories-of-the-nature-of-cities-1-2-hour-episode-2-sea-level-rise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/2020\/10\/07\/stories-of-the-nature-of-cities-1-2-hour-episode-2-sea-level-rise-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories of the Nature of Cities 1\/2 Hour. Episode 2\u2014Sea Level Rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Episode 2\u2014Sea Level Rise<\/h2>\r\n<p>The read stories are Rym Kechacha&#8217;s \u201cOld Father Thames\u201d and Alyssa Eckles&#8217; &#8220;Uolo and the Idol&#8221;. The Stories are first read, then authors Rym and Alyssa then join David Maddox for conversation.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong><em>&#8220;<span id=\"m_-1174231573089318296docs-internal-guid-6bcef86f-7fff-b6fb-3be8-e1ef1c526cce\">Old Father Thames<\/span>\u201d<\/em> <\/strong>by Rym Kechacha<br \/><span id=\"m_-1174231573089318296docs-internal-guid-6bcef86f-7fff-b6fb-3be8-e1ef1c526cce\">The narrator gets swept away by Old Father Thames after playing on a riverbank and ignoring a flood warning. Read by Lucy Symons (London).<\/span><span id=\"m_-1174231573089318296docs-internal-guid-6bcef86f-7fff-b6fb-3be8-e1ef1c526cce\"><\/span><\/p>\r\n<div><em><strong>&#8220;<span id=\"m_-1174231573089318296docs-internal-guid-6bcef86f-7fff-b6fb-3be8-e1ef1c526cce\">Uolo and the Idol<\/span>\u201d<\/strong> <\/em> by Alyssa Eckles <br \/><span id=\"m_-1174231573089318296docs-internal-guid-6bcef86f-7fff-b6fb-3be8-e1ef1c526cce\">Uolo discovers an idol of a woman while fishing in the automobile reef. Read by Bernadette Dunn (New York).<\/span><\/div>\r\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\r\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Stories of the Nature of Cities\u2014Episode 2\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/487480456?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe><\/p>\r\n<div style=\"color: #338e3c;\">\r\n<p><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/2020\/09\/28\/stories-of-the-nature-of-cities-1-2-hour-biodiversity\/natureofcities-nonvector-copy\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-44091\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-44091\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/NATUREOFCITIES-nonVector-copy-588x560.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a>&#8220;Stories of the Nature of Cities 1\/2 Hour&#8221;<\/strong> is a monthly series of readings from TNOC&#8217;s collection of very short fiction about future cities. Each episode is 30 minutes and features two readings and then a conversation between the authors and an urban practitioner.<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p><i>The stories are drawn from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/a-flash-of-silver-green-tnocs-new-book-of-flash-fiction-on-future-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">book of flash fiction<\/a> (less than 1000 words) on future cities TNOC and partners created, called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/a-flash-of-silver-green-tnocs-new-book-of-flash-fiction-on-future-cities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Flash of Silver Green&#8221;<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<div>Our sponsors:<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/2020\/09\/28\/stories-of-the-nature-of-cities-1-2-hour-biodiversity\/logo-field-copy-3\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-43920\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-43920\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/Logo-field-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a> <!-- \/wp:post-content --><\/div>\r\n<!-- \/wp:buttons -->\r\n\r\n<!-- wp:spacer {\"height\":50} -->\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-spacer\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class=\"addon_bios\">    <div class=\"wp-biographia-container-around\">\n        <div class=\"wp-biographia-pic\"><img alt='Rym Kechacha' src='https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RymKechacha-125x125.jpg' srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/RymKechacha-206x250.jpg 2x\" class='avatar avatar-125 photo wp-biographia-avatar' height='125' width='125' \/><\/div>\n        <div class=\"wp-biographia-text\">\n            <h3>about the writer<br>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/author\/rymkechacha\/\">Rym Kechacha<\/a>\n            <\/h3>\n            <p>Rym Kechacha is a writer and teacher living in Norwich, UK. Her debut novel, Dark River, was published this year by Unsung Stories. Find her on twitter @RymKechacha<\/p>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n    <\/div><\/div>\r\n<!-- \/wp:spacer -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Episode 2\u2014Sea Level Rise The read stories are Rym Kechacha&#8217;s \u201cOld Father Thames\u201d and Alyssa Eckles&#8217; &#8220;Uolo and the Idol&#8221;. The Stories are first read, then authors Rym and Alyssa then join David Maddox for conversation. &#8220;Old Father Thames\u201d by Rym KechachaThe narrator gets swept away by Old Father Thames after playing on a riverbank [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":913,"featured_media":27793,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[279,1211],"tags":[],"coauthors":[1226,1227],"class_list":["post-43936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-podcast","category-stories-of-the-nature-of-cities-1-2-hour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/913"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43936"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43936\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43936"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=43936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}