{"id":4832,"date":"2022-03-19T05:42:03","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T08:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2022-03-19T05:46:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T08:46:20","slug":"zack-metcaalfe-in-rural-life-whale-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=4832","title":{"rendered":"Zack Metcaalfe in Rural Delivery: Whale Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rurallife.ca\/whalenation?fbclid=IwAR0F74v947g4lTOWPwSFbt_EesUq1R6ACsB_1isYqpKsxPCLPnHNAMCrtZA\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4833\" src=\"http:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ZackMWhales-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ZackMWhales-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ZackMWhales.jpg 609w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>About\u00a0 a masterpiece of writing and photography in the Dec 2021 issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rurallife.ca\/rural-delivery-tofc\">Rural Delivery<\/a>, that wonderful magazine about life in rural NS produced by Dirk van Loon &amp; Co.\u00a0 that&#8217;s been with us for over 40 years, Zack Metcalfe\u00a0 commented<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I spent much of 2021 working on this article, reading books on the natural history and evolution of the world&#8217;s whales, and chasing these wonderful creatures throughout the St Lawrence Estuary. The article published in December, and is finally online! All photos are my own.\u00a0See if you can spot my favourite.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;In few places on Earth have the forces of geology, hydrology and biology conspired more successfully to attract the whale nation&#8221;&#8230;. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rurallife.ca\/whalenation?fbclid=IwAR0F74v947g4lTOWPwSFbt_EesUq1R6ACsB_1isYqpKsxPCLPnHNAMCrtZA\">read More<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Thx. ZM. Thx RD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About\u00a0 a masterpiece of writing and photography in the Dec 2021 issue of Rural Delivery, that wonderful magazine about life in rural NS produced by Dirk van Loon &amp; Co.\u00a0 that&#8217;s been with us for over 40 years, Zack Metcalfe\u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/?p=4832\">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":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832"}],"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=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4838,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions\/4838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/halifaxfieldnaturalists.ca\/hfnWP\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}