{"id":37819,"date":"2019-06-19T21:13:19","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T21:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=37819"},"modified":"2019-06-19T21:14:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T21:14:08","slug":"biology-the-field-guide-philosophy-part-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-the-field-guide-philosophy-part-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Biology: the field guide philosophy, part 0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about biology and lifestyle: the tutor wonders why searching for unfamiliar plants is exciting.<\/h2>\n<p>\nLooking through the plant guide during a spare moment, I will sometimes plan searching for a particular plant I&#8217;ve never seen, yet lives here. Why is the idea so exciting?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nPerhaps searching for unfamiliar plants is rather like studying cryptozoology, etc. Although I know the plant exists, it&#8217;s as yet unknown to me, so to find it is to discover a new plant, and so enlarge the world I know. Furthermore, finding a new plant often means discovering a new environment, however confined.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Pojar, Jim and Andy MacKinnon. <em>Plants of Coastal British Columbia<\/em>. Vancouver: BC Ministry of Forests with Lone Pine Publishing, 1994.\n<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about biology and lifestyle: the tutor wonders why searching for unfamiliar plants is exciting. Looking through the plant guide during a spare moment, I will sometimes plan searching for a particular plant I&#8217;ve never seen, yet lives here. Why &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/biology-the-field-guide-philosophy-part-0\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Biology: the field guide philosophy, part 0<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[779],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37821,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37819\/revisions\/37821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}