{"id":24783,"date":"2011-02-12T19:02:15","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T19:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2011\/02\/12\/darwin-and-the-voyage-03-the-r\/"},"modified":"2011-02-12T19:02:15","modified_gmt":"2011-02-12T19:02:15","slug":"darwin-and-the-voyage-03-the-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/12\/darwin-and-the-voyage-03-the-r\/","title":{"rendered":"Darwin and the Voyage: 03 ~ The Rain Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I read the following passage from The Voyage, I was reminded of my own first experience in a rain forest (in Zaire). Evident in this passage is at least a glimmering of Darwin&#8217;s appreciation for the complexity of ecosystems. Darwin could be considered the first scientific ecologist. Enough of my commentary &#8230; this passage very much stands on it&#8217;s own &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2008\/02\/the_first_time_i_read.php\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first time I read the following passage from The Voyage, I was reminded of my own first experience in a rain forest (in Zaire). Evident in this passage is at least a glimmering of Darwin&#8217;s appreciation for the complexity of ecosystems. Darwin could be considered the first scientific ecologist. Enough of my commentary &#8230; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/12\/darwin-and-the-voyage-03-the-r\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Darwin and the Voyage: 03 ~ The Rain Forest<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6rJ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24783"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}