{"id":3413,"date":"2011-05-09T19:05:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-10T02:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/09\/admiring-the-saguaro-from-the-courtyard\/"},"modified":"2011-05-09T19:08:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T02:08:12","slug":"admiring-the-saguaro-from-the-courtyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/09\/admiring-the-saguaro-from-the-courtyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Admiring the Saguaro from the Courtyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bob-cactus.jpg' title='courtyard'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/bob-cactus.jpg' alt='courtyard' class='right' width='320' \/><\/a>Verna was walking the dogs on the road this afternoon while I was standing in the courtyard watching her and the dogs as well as admiring our (new to us but really old) saguaro cactus. Saguaros generally don&#8217;t start sprouting &#8220;arms&#8221; until they are as much as seventy-five years old or more and this one has five arms with arm buds for seven or eight new arms.<\/p>\n<p>We were quite lucky to get this cactus at the price we paid. It augments the southwestern &#8220;flavor&#8221; we were looking for in our Arizona home. Click on the image (that Verna took from the road) to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verna was walking the dogs on the road this afternoon while I was standing in the courtyard watching her and the dogs as well as admiring&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}