{"id":178,"date":"2012-10-29T08:27:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T12:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/?p=178"},"modified":"2014-03-10T14:15:28","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T18:15:28","slug":"camping-trip-for-science-nerdery-fall-break-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/camping-trip-for-science-nerdery-fall-break-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Camping trip for science nerdery: Fall break 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago,\u00a0 we had the lovely four day weekend known as Fall Break.\u00a0 Although I used some of this time to catch up on school work, stupid TV, and house cleaning, I also took advantage of the break to go on a camping trip to <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps\/ms?msid=215730848233904618105.0004cd28d749665e4ef90&amp;msa=0&amp;ll=34.048961,-77.913322&amp;spn=0.149912,0.338173\">Carolina Beach State Park<\/a>, at the mouth of Cape Fear River. In addition to some lovely walks and board gaming in the park, and walks along the Atlantic coast in Kure Beach, we made a detour to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.org\/ourinitiatives\/regions\/northamerica\/unitedstates\/northcarolina\/placesweprotect\/green-swamp-preserve.xml\">Green Swamp Preserve<\/a>. This reserve, owned and managed by the Nature Conservancy, boasts a high density of carnivorous plants, some of which are rare or endangered.\u00a0 For the kind of nerd who gets excited about plants that eat animals, it was a great place to spend an afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few photos of pitcher plants, Venus fly traps, and the long-leaf pine savanna ecosystems in which they live:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><code>[portfolio_slideshow id=197]<\/code><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If you want to see more pictures of carnivorous plants in North Carolina (and you know you do, because they&#8217;re super cool!), head on over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.duke.edu\/~jspippen\/plants\/carnivorousplants.htm\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple weeks ago,\u00a0 we had the lovely four day weekend known as Fall Break.\u00a0 Although I used some of this time to catch up on school work, stupid TV, and house cleaning, I also<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/camping-trip-for-science-nerdery-fall-break-2012\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":298,"featured_media":186,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,31,20,22,24],"tags":[],"coauthors":[28],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservation","category-phd","category-slideshows","category-students","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/files\/2012\/10\/PA140051.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2KGgE-2S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/298"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nicholas.duke.edu\/inphdeep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}