{"id":177325,"date":"2025-09-20T04:16:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=177325"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:16:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:16:51","slug":"rex-mann-american-chestnut-evangelist-died-july-2-aged-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=177325","title":{"rendered":"Rex Mann, American chestnut evangelist, died July 2, aged 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Founder\u2019s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. For most Americans, the loss of a tree might pass unnoticed. For Rex Mann, it changed the course of his life. As a boy growing up in the mountains of western North Carolina&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.mongabay.com\/short-article\/2025\/08\/rex-mann-american-chestnut-evangelist-died-july-2-aged-81\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Founder\u2019s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":177326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-americas"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177325-rex-mann-american-chestnut-evangelist-died-july-2-aged-81.jpg",768,512,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177325-rex-mann-american-chestnut-evangelist-died-july-2-aged-81-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177325-rex-mann-american-chestnut-evangelist-died-july-2-aged-81-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177325-rex-mann-american-chestnut-evangelist-died-july-2-aged-81.jpg",640,427,false],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177325-rex-mann-american-chestnut-evangelist-died-july-2-aged-81.jpg",640,427,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177325-rex-mann-american-chestnut-evangelist-died-july-2-aged-81.jpg",768,512,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177325-rex-mann-american-chestnut-evangelist-died-july-2-aged-81.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177325-rex-mann-american-chestnut-evangelist-died-july-2-aged-81.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177325-rex-mann-american-chestnut-evangelist-died-july-2-aged-81.jpg",768,512,false],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/177325-rex-mann-american-chestnut-evangelist-died-july-2-aged-81-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=41\" rel=\"category\">Americas<\/a>","tag_info":"Americas","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/177326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}