{"id":5512,"date":"2015-03-22T18:57:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-23T01:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/22\/cholla-flowers-coming\/"},"modified":"2015-03-22T18:57:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-23T01:57:20","slug":"cholla-flowers-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/22\/cholla-flowers-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholla Flowers Coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cholla-flower-buds.jpg' title='Cholla Flower Buds'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cholla-flower-buds.jpg' alt='Cholla Flower Buds' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Buckhorn Cholla cacti are growing in many places on the portion of our lot that is still natural desert. We were up on the hill today and I took this close-up of a cluster of flower buds on one of the plants. <\/p>\n<p>In less than a month and continuing into summer, the various cholla will have yellow to orange flowers  in bloom. We don&#8217;t exactly know why, but some of the cholla have flowers later in the spring season than others.<\/p>\n<p>When the flowers do open, just look and don&#8217;t get your nose in close to smell them. You just might get one of those spikes in your face. Click on the image to enlarge. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buckhorn Cholla cacti are growing in many places on the portion of our lot that is still natural desert. We were up on the hill today&#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-5512","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\/5512","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=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}