{"id":6303,"date":"2020-05-02T16:52:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-02T23:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/02\/paddle-cactus-rescue\/"},"modified":"2020-05-02T16:52:18","modified_gmt":"2020-05-02T23:52:18","slug":"paddle-cactus-rescue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/02\/paddle-cactus-rescue\/","title":{"rendered":"Paddle Cactus Rescue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/paddle-rescue.jpg' title='Paddle Cactus Rescue'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/paddle-rescue.jpg' alt='Paddle Cactus Rescue' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the post title should include &#8220;In Progress,&#8221; since the cactus isn&#8217;t yet in it&#8217;s ultimate destination. The image above shows the original location and now in the pot to which it has been transplanted. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>We recently discovered a small (1&frac12; inch) prickly pear cactus trying to grow alongside the concrete RV Drive just west of the house. That particular location is unsuitable for a new cactus start-up for a couple of reasons, First, it is too close to the RV Drive to be able to develop into a larger plant and, second, that location offers little or no protection from cactus-eating wildlife. As a small single paddle, it would be bite-sized for a Javelina.<\/p>\n<p>We took the start-up cactus out of the ground and placed it in a five-inch clay pot for the time being. When it gets a bit bigger, we will move it o a larger pot until it gets developed enough to stick it back in the ground on the west side of the house where it will have a better chance of survival in the wild as a larger cactus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps the post title should include &#8220;In Progress,&#8221; since the cactus isn&#8217;t yet in it&#8217;s ultimate destination. The image above shows the original location and now&#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":[38,8,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-pretty-stuff","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303","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=6303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}