{"id":3078,"date":"2015-08-25T15:29:25","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2015-08-25T15:37:35","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T18:37:35","slug":"whats-a-naturalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3078","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s a Naturalist?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1310506biocache-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"P1310506biocache\" width=\"150\"  class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-3079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1310506biocache-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/P1310506biocache-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>In  the NaturallyNS column for August 2015, David P discusses what\u2019s involved in \u201cnatural history\u201d and how one becomes a \u201cnaturalist\u201d.  The role of groups such as HFN is highlighted. &#8220;Today, in our highly urbanized society and with the prevalence of industrial-scale forestry and farming many such connections [to nature] have been lost. However, the yearning to know more about nature persists, especially through childhood. <strong>Paul Keddy<\/strong>, a young graduate student when he played a key role in founding the Halifax Field Naturalists many years ago, said, <em>If you want to learn more about your world, then you are a naturalist<\/em>.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/thenovascotian\/1306838-nova-scotia-naturally-a-love-of-the-natural-world\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thechronicleherald.ca\/thenovascotian\/1306838-nova-scotia-naturally-a-love-of-the-natural-world\">View  article<\/a><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the NaturallyNS column for August 2015, David P discusses what\u2019s involved in \u201cnatural history\u201d and how one becomes a \u201cnaturalist\u201d. The role of groups such as HFN is highlighted. &#8220;Today, in our highly urbanized society and with the prevalence &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=3078\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3088,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions\/3088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}