{"id":531,"date":"2018-07-18T13:13:51","date_gmt":"2018-07-18T17:13:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beeart.ca\/?p=531"},"modified":"2019-12-08T13:59:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-08T18:59:42","slug":"pollinators-promote-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beeart.ca\/?p=531","title":{"rendered":"Pollinators Promote Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"526\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/beeart.ca\/?attachment_id=526\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beeart.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canoe-w-aidan-and-verlin.jpg?fit=4032%2C3024&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"4032,3024\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"canoe w aidan and verlin\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beeart.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canoe-w-aidan-and-verlin.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-526\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beeart.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/canoe-w-aidan-and-verlin.jpg?resize=1505%2C1129&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"canoe w aidan and verlin\" width=\"1505\" height=\"1129\">Verlin Lloyd James, Zora Ignjatovic, Aidan Dahlin Nolan, Leigh Paulseth, Brother Nature&#8230; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Photo: Gillian Leitch<\/h6>\n<h3>Proof that getting dirty in a pollinator patch (or Community Canoe) can have long term benefits for your love life.<\/h3>\n<p>Creator of the Community Canoe project Aidan Dahlin Nolan (diggin&#8217; in on the left) and lovely Leigh Paulseth (dirty hands on the right) celebrated their love this Spring in a beautiful ceremony with a carpenter bee flying over their heads as they exchanged vows.<\/p>\n<p>Pollinators helped plants sexually reproduce inspiring the creation of the first drop of nectar 135 million years ago. It&#8217;s been a love-love relationship ever since.<\/p>\n<p>The history of this relationship is fascinating, including the divergence of bees from wasps,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/the-beguiling-history-of-bees-excerpt\/\">When the wasp eventually evolved to feed its offspring purely on pollen, it had become the first bee.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Community Canoes have sprung up all over; the one pictured&nbsp;planted a few years ago at the Indigenous Waterways convergence.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"528\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/beeart.ca\/?attachment_id=528\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beeart.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/indigenous-waterways-e1575782641397.png?fit=804%2C759&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"804,759\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"indigenous-waterways\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beeart.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/indigenous-waterways-e1575782641397.png?fit=804%2C759&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-528 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beeart.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/indigenous-waterways.png?resize=819%2C759&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"indigenous-waterways\" width=\"819\" height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p>Some of us wore long skirts to communicate with the Earth, others wore business casual, like Verlin Lloyd James, sweetly smiling at his pollinator love prospects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verlin Lloyd James, Zora Ignjatovic, Aidan Dahlin Nolan, Leigh Paulseth, Brother Nature&#8230; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71306652,"featured_media":707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","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},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[53268,644926896,25977544,626319314,3785,5657,675727655,675727658,2961233],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bees","tag-community-canoe","tag-evergreen-brickworks","tag-indigenous-approach","tag-love","tag-nectar","tag-pollinators","tag-verlin-lloyd-james","tag-water-is-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p531yR-8z","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/beeart.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/canoe-red-verlin-evergreen.jpg?fit=2048%2C1536&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beeart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beeart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beeart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beeart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71306652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beeart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/beeart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1258,"href":"https:\/\/beeart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/1258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beeart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beeart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beeart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beeart.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}