{"id":67786,"date":"2025-10-09T15:03:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T22:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=67786"},"modified":"2025-11-17T12:09:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T20:09:27","slug":"amy-tan-loves-birds","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/event\/amy-tan-loves-birds\/","title":{"rendered":"Amy Tan Loves Birds (SOLD OUT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join KNKX for a celebration of BirdNote&#8217;s 20th Anniversary with special guest, author <strong>Amy Tan<\/strong> (<em>The Joy Luck Club<\/em>) on December 2, 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>An avid birder and passionate conservationist, Amy shares her love for feathered friends in her recent book, <em>The Backyard Bird Chronicles<\/em>, filled with personal stories, insights, and her own illustrations. She\u2019s also a longtime fan of BirdNote! The event will feature a lively conversation moderated by KNKX <em>Morning Edition<\/em> host <strong>Kirsten Kendrick<\/strong>, with Amy Tan and BirdNote Executive Director <strong>Nick Bayard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67788\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67788\" class=\"wp-image-67788 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Tan-Kendrick-Bayard-800x.jpg\" alt=\"Headshots of Amy Tan, Kirsten Kendrick, and Nick Bayard\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Tan-Kendrick-Bayard-800x.jpg 800w, https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Tan-Kendrick-Bayard-800x-480x240.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-67788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Amy Tan (left), Kirsten Kendrick (center) and Nick Bayard (right).<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Amy will talk about her birding journey, her conservation work, and what inspires her connection to the natural world. You\u2019ll also learn more about BirdNote\u2019s mission to inspire and educate people about the joys and wonders of birds, and to protect their habitats.<\/p>\n<p>Doors open at 6:30 p.m. \u2014 come early to meet live birds in the lobby before the show!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join KNKX for a celebration of BirdNote&#8217;s 20th Anniversary with special guest, author <strong>Amy Tan<\/strong> (<em>The Joy Luck Club<\/em>) on December 2, 7:30 p.m. at Town Hall Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>An avid birder and passionate conservationist, Amy shares her love for feathered friends in her recent book, <em>The Backyard Bird Chronicles<\/em>, filled with personal stories, insights, and her own illustrations. She\u2019s also a longtime fan of BirdNote! The event will feature a lively conversation moderated by KNKX <em>Morning Edition<\/em> host <strong>Kirsten Kendrick<\/strong>, with Amy Tan and BirdNote Executive Director <strong>Nick Bayard.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_67788\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67788\" class=\"wp-image-67788 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Tan-Kendrick-Bayard-800x.jpg\" alt=\"Headshots of Amy Tan, Kirsten Kendrick, and Nick Bayard\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Tan-Kendrick-Bayard-800x.jpg 800w, https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Tan-Kendrick-Bayard-800x-480x240.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) 800px, 100vw\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-67788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Amy Tan (left), Kirsten Kendrick (center) and Nick Bayard (right).<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Amy will talk about her birding journey, her conservation work, and what inspires her connection to the natural world. You\u2019ll also learn more about BirdNote\u2019s mission to inspire and educate people about the joys and wonders of birds, and to protect their habitats.<\/p>\n<p>Doors open at 6:30 p.m. \u2014 come early to meet live birds in the lobby before the show!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67787,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[57],"class_list":["post-67786","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-rental-partner-events","cat_rental-partner-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/67786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/67786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67786"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/townhallseattle.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=67786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}