{"id":2667,"date":"2010-05-23T14:36:09","date_gmt":"2010-05-23T21:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/23\/saguaro-cactus-in-bloom\/"},"modified":"2010-05-23T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2010-05-23T21:36:09","slug":"saguaro-cactus-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/23\/saguaro-cactus-in-bloom\/","title":{"rendered":"Saguaro Cactus in Bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/saguaro.jpg' title='saguaro.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/saguaro.thumbnail.jpg' alt='saguaro.jpg' class='right' \/><\/a>While we were vacationing in Arizona earlier this month, we visited a state park north of Phoenix called Lake Pleasant. At the visitor&#8217;s center, there were a number of saguaro cacti in bloom. This bunch of flowers was atop a ten-foot tall saguaro. Much of the central to southern part of Arizona is home to forests of saguaro and other drought hardy vegetation. <\/p>\n<p>The saguaro flower is Arizona&#8217;s state flower. Even though here in California our state flower, the California Golden Poppy, is a very beautiful flower (I have many in bloom in the garden now), we will be proud to have the saguaro flower as our new state flower.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While we were vacationing in Arizona earlier this month, we visited a state park north of Phoenix called Lake Pleasant. At the visitor&#8217;s center, there were&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography","category-vacation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}