{"id":61670,"date":"2016-07-21T00:09:47","date_gmt":"2016-07-21T07:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=61670"},"modified":"2016-07-21T00:09:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T07:09:47","slug":"marvelous-monarchs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/61670","title":{"rendered":"Marvelous Monarchs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tWe know pollinators are precious.<\/p>\n<p>And we know that, among pollinators, monarchs are particularly marvelous.<\/p>\n<p>Not only are their delicate wings dressed in a daring, dashing fashion reminiscent of tiny sky tigers, they use those fierce little wings to migrate hundreds of miles each year.<\/p>\n<p>Like I said, <em>marvelous<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61671\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61671\" class=\"wp-image-61671\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/8468980391_ce586a8bc6_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-61671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Jiuguang Wang via Flickr<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cBut have you ever seen what exactly millions of monarchs in Mexico looks like?\u201d asks Treehugger\u2019s Melissa Breyer.<\/p>\n<p>Admittedly, few of us have actually witnessed this famous phenomenon. So, to bring the monarch\u2019s marvelousness into focus, up close and personal, filmmaker Louie Schwartzberg created a short film for all of us to, well, marvel at.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve seen photos; they&#8217;re lovely. But this short film, \u2018Wings of Life,\u2019 offers a glimpse into this phenomenon that is nothing short of magic,\u201d Breyer shares. \u201c[Monarchs] fill the sky like paper in a tickertape parade; clouds of confetti, orange and fluttering. They sleep on the branches of oyamel trees, sometimes in numbers so dense that they break the branches. And to see them all together, as shown in the film, is a thing of unforgettable beauty!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>See for yourself, and feel your heart take wing \u2026<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/63681899\" width=\"500\" height=\"320\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center>P.S. If you\u2019re a Midwest farmgirl, you may be able to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/59429\"><u>help monarch butterflies on your property<\/u><\/a>.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know pollinators are precious. And we know that, among pollinators, monarchs are particularly marvelous. Not only are their delicate wings dressed in a daring, dashing fashion reminiscent of tiny sky tigers, they use those fierce little wings to migrate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/61670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/61670\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-get_out"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}