{"id":382,"date":"2019-04-26T08:20:10","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/?p=382"},"modified":"2019-04-26T11:50:22","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T18:50:22","slug":"flower-talk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/flower-talk-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower Talk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/flowertalk_fc.png?resize=525%2C449&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"449\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8738\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2Dx92PO\">Flower Talk: How Plants Use Color to Communicate<\/a><br \/>\nby Sara C. Levine (Author) and Masha D&#8217;yans (Illustrator)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Booktalk:<\/strong> A cantankerous cactus explains the significance of different colors of flowers in terms of which pollinators (bees, bats, birds, etc.) different colors &#8220;talk&#8221; to.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>Snippet:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/flowertalk_in1.png?resize=525%2C449&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"449\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8739\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/flowertalk_in2.png?resize=525%2C449&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"449\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8740\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/flowertalk_in3.png?resize=525%2C449&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"525\" height=\"449\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8741\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-889\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/asuen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/stemfriday.tiny_.jpg?resize=216%2C104\" alt=\"\" width=\"216\" height=\"104\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/\">STEM Friday!<\/a> (<strong>STEM<\/strong> is <strong>S<\/strong>cience, <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, <strong>E<\/strong>ngineering, and <strong>M<\/strong>athematics)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Anastasia Suen<\/a> All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flower Talk: How Plants Use Color to Communicate by Sara C. Levine (Author) and Masha D&#8217;yans (Illustrator) Booktalk: A cantankerous cactus explains the significance of different colors of flowers in terms of which pollinators (bees, bats, birds, etc.) different colors &#8220;talk&#8221; to. Snippet: It&#8217;s STEM Friday! (STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) Copyright \u00a9 &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/flower-talk-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Flower Talk&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stem-friday-round-up"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pamhGQ-6a","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":366,"url":"https:\/\/asuen.com\/stemfriday\/flower-talk\/","url_meta":{"origin":382,"position":0},"title":"Flower Talk","author":"Sue Heavenrich","date":"May 31, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Do flowers talk? 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