{"id":3213,"date":"2014-12-25T08:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T13:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2014-12-24T20:48:42","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T01:48:42","slug":"merry-christmas-happy-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-happy-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Merry Christmas &#038; Happy Holidays!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-blog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3214\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-blog.jpg\" alt=\"Insectmas-Tree-blog\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-blog.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-blog-500x500.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-blog-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-blog-96x96.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-blog-24x24.jpg 24w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-blog-36x36.jpg 36w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-blog-48x48.jpg 48w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-blog-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas to those celebrating, and happy holidays to those who aren&#8217;t! I hope you find yourself surrounded by friends&amp; family of all shapes and sizes, and I\u00a0wish you a wonderful winter, and a New Year filled with curiosity, discovery and unparalleled joy.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And for you taxonomy geeks out there, here&#8217;s an insect holiday tree decorated with all the identification\u00a0labels. Because nothing says Happy Holidays like a properly labelled insect collection.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-bloglabels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3215\" src=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-bloglabels.jpg\" alt=\"Insectmas-Tree-bloglabels\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-bloglabels.jpg 700w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-bloglabels-500x500.jpg 500w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-bloglabels-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-bloglabels-96x96.jpg 96w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-bloglabels-24x24.jpg 24w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-bloglabels-36x36.jpg 36w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-bloglabels-48x48.jpg 48w, http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Insectmas-Tree-bloglabels-64x64.jpg 64w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(All specimens courtesy of and housed in the University of Guelph Insect Collection)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merry Christmas to those celebrating, and happy holidays to those who aren&#8217;t! I hope you find yourself surrounded by friends&amp; family of all shapes and sizes, and I\u00a0wish you a wonderful winter, and a New Year filled with curiosity, discovery and unparalleled joy. &nbsp; And for you taxonomy geeks out there, here&#8217;s an insect holiday <a href='http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/25\/merry-christmas-happy-holidays\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,303],"tags":[194,197,560],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-stuff","category-thumb-twiddling","tag-christmas","tag-holiday","tag-insect-art","category-151-id","category-303-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3217,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions\/3217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.biodiversityinfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}