{"id":3416,"date":"2021-06-16T23:06:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/introtoflora.community.uaf.edu\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2021-06-16T23:06:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-17T07:06:19","slug":"oonas-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/2021\/06\/16\/oonas-introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Oona&#8217;s Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello! I am so looking forward to experiencing this online flora adventure with you all.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name is Oona. I grew up in Northern Ontario, Canada and have lived in Anchorage since 2002. <br>I work as a Landscape Architect and I have wanted to revisit botany for some time now.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From an early age, flowers and plants delighted me and learning their names satisfied my curiosity and fed my enthusiasm.  When I came to live in Alaska, I was completely smitten by alpine and meadow plants I encountered;  some similar, most completely different from the areas where I grew up.  Oh, and the berries! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I love how you refer to learning botanical terminology like learning a new language. Using botanical language is challenging for me and while I can interpret botanical references in books, I still hesitate to use it. Gaining proficiency in this language will be my main goal for this class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m happiest in my garden, or walking with my dog and kids in the woods or in the mountains exploring the seasons.<br>My favourite plants change all the time.  Right now, Mertensia paniculata &#8211; Alaska Bluebells jumps to mind because it is having it&#8217;s moment! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/introtoflora.community.uaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/766\/2021\/06\/IMG-7465-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3417\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" \/><figcaption>I made this wildflower album made with my grandmother. <\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/introtoflora.community.uaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/766\/2021\/06\/IMG-7474-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3418\" width=\"384\" height=\"512\" \/><figcaption>I have a Smartphone and a Macro-lens Attachment<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/introtoflora.community.uaf.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/766\/2021\/06\/IMG-7472-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3420\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><figcaption>Mertensia paniculata &#8211; Alaska Bluebells<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello! I am so looking forward to experiencing this online flora adventure with you all. My name is Oona. I grew up in Northern Ontario, Canada and have lived in Anchorage since 2002. I work as a Landscape Architect and I have wanted to revisit botany for some time now. From an early age, flowers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introductions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/introtoflora.frontierbotany.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}