{"id":667,"date":"2025-08-25T03:04:45","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T03:04:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entsocalberta.ca\/jam2025\/?page_id=667"},"modified":"2025-10-04T02:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T02:25:08","slug":"heritagelecture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/entsocalberta.ca\/jam2025\/en\/program\/heritagelecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Heritage Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-large-font-size\"><strong>Heritage Lecture<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"padding-top:0;padding-bottom:0;grid-template-columns:25% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"348\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/entsocalberta.ca\/jam2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/johnacorn.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-668 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/entsocalberta.ca\/jam2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/johnacorn.jpg 348w, https:\/\/entsocalberta.ca\/jam2025\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/johnacorn-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 348px) 100vw, 348px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Heritage, verbiage, and reflections on a half-century of entomology<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>John Acorn, University of Alberta<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John Acorn is a lifelong naturalist, born in Edmonton and raised on his fascination with the biota of Alberta. With a background in ecology and evolution, and an interest in insects, birds, fossils, and just about anything else zoological, John is best known for his twenty-some books, and his former television series &#8220;Acorn, The Nature Nut&#8221;. John is a member of the faculty at the University of Alberta, where he teaches biodiversity, field ornithology, park management, and science communication. He is most proud of his family, and his students, a majority of whom study insect ecology.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heritage Lecture Heritage, verbiage, and reflections on a half-century of entomology John Acorn, University of Alberta John Acorn is a lifelong naturalist, born in Edmonton and raised on his fascination with the biota of Alberta. With a background in ecology and evolution, and an interest in insects, birds, fossils, and just about anything else zoological, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":26,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"english","meta":{"ub_ctt_via":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-667","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entsocalberta.ca\/jam2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entsocalberta.ca\/jam2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entsocalberta.ca\/jam2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entsocalberta.ca\/jam2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entsocalberta.ca\/jam2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=667"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/entsocalberta.ca\/jam2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":858,"href":"https:\/\/entsocalberta.ca\/jam2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/667\/revisions\/858"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entsocalberta.ca\/jam2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entsocalberta.ca\/jam2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}