{"id":2,"date":"2009-11-26T23:13:22","date_gmt":"2009-11-27T04:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2011-12-30T00:39:19","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T05:39:19","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Having recently completed my M.Sc, I&#8217;ve continued to work at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uoguelph.ca\/debu\" target=\"_blank\">University of Guelph Insect Collection<\/a> where I study the systematics and taxonomy of Stilt-legged Flies (Diptera: Micropezidae) among other things. I took up nature photography as a hobby in 2007 in order to share the creatures I came across with family and friends, and now hope to share my photos with you.<\/p>\n<p>I started this blog as a way to practice my scientific communication skills and to share some of my photos. Turns out I enjoy writing and sharing the fascinating world of insects and have embraced and incorporated social media into my day to day research. I hope you enjoy my meanderings through biodiversity, fly research, taxonomy and the various other topics I write about, and thanks for stopping by!<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having recently completed my M.Sc, I&#8217;ve continued to work at the University of Guelph Insect Collection where I study the systematics and taxonomy of Stilt-legged Flies (Diptera: Micropezidae) among other things. I took up nature photography as a hobby in 2007 in order to share the creatures I came across with family and friends, and <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/about\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/17"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}