{"id":5114,"date":"2014-03-03T19:17:40","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T02:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/03\/desert-photography-and-first-signs-of-spring\/"},"modified":"2014-03-03T22:02:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T05:02:46","slug":"desert-photography-and-first-signs-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/03\/desert-photography-and-first-signs-of-spring\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Photography and First Signs of Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The neighbors house is on a two-acre spread, most of which is natural desert flora and fauna. Among those is this nice Beavertail Cactus (<em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Opuntia_basilaris\">opuntia basilaris<\/a><\/em>) which just started displaying its beautiful bright pink flowers. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/btail1.jpg' title='Beavertail Cactus Flowers'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/btail1.jpg' alt='Beavertail Cactus Flowers' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I took this photo of Verna taking the above photo. When she sees our Beavertails flowers opening, I&#8217;m sure she will post some nice close up cactus flowers. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/desert-photographer.jpg' title='Desert Photography'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/desert-photographer.jpg' alt='Desert Photography' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The neighbors house is on a two-acre spread, most of which is natural desert flora and fauna. Among those is this nice Beavertail Cactus (opuntia basilaris)&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,14,10,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-family","category-leisure","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114","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=5114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}