{"id":5547,"date":"2015-04-18T21:51:18","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T04:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/18\/teddy-bear-cholla-flowers\/"},"modified":"2015-04-18T21:51:18","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T04:51:18","slug":"teddy-bear-cholla-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/18\/teddy-bear-cholla-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Teddy Bear Cholla Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/teddy-bear-cholla-flowers.jpg' title='Teddy Bear Cholla Flowers'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/teddy-bear-cholla-flowers.jpg' alt='Teddy Bear Cholla Flowers' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We took a short road trip today out to visit a touristy little mining town about 25 miles west of town today. When we got there, we found out that the facility was closed because of a special event. It seems that they had rented their park to a &#8220;photo shoot&#8221; group and no other visitors could be admitted. Bummer.<\/p>\n<p>However, they had no problem with us wandering around the nearby mostly unspoiled desert. In one area, there was a large patch of Teddy Bear Cholla cactus. I managed to get close enough to photograph some of the pale green flowers that grow on this variety of cactus. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We took a short road trip today out to visit a touristy little mining town about 25 miles west of town today. When we got there,&#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":[39,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547","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=5547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}