{"id":4799,"date":"2013-05-17T10:33:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T17:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/red-bird-of-paradise-season-is-here\/"},"modified":"2013-05-17T10:33:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T17:33:11","slug":"red-bird-of-paradise-season-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/17\/red-bird-of-paradise-season-is-here\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Bird Of Paradise Season Is Here"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/red-bird-flower.jpg' title='Red Bird Of Paradise Flower'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/red-bird-flower.jpg' alt='Red Bird Of Paradise Flower' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We were in the Northwest Phoenix Metro Valley yesterday. A lot of the Red Bird of Paradise shrubs were in bloom. We stopped at a little landscape plot where there were several of these growing, so I took this photo o my favorite desert shrub flower. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>The valley gets their flowers about a month before we do in Wickenburg due to the elevation and temperature difference, I guess. My three shrubs in the courtyard have already started their spring comeback with sprouts from six inches to a foot. They grow really fast, so it won\u2019t be long before we have a lot of these beautiful flowers in our courtyard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were in the Northwest Phoenix Metro Valley yesterday. A lot of the Red Bird of Paradise shrubs were in bloom. We stopped at a little&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-flowers","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4799\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}