{"id":5706,"date":"2015-08-31T21:25:05","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T04:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/hummingbird-and-devils-tongue-flowers\/"},"modified":"2015-08-31T21:25:05","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T04:25:05","slug":"hummingbird-and-devils-tongue-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/31\/hummingbird-and-devils-tongue-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hummingbird and Devil&#8217;s Tongue Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/backlit-hummingbird.jpg' title='Pollinator'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/backlit-hummingbird.jpg' alt='Pollinator' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was in the courtyard this afternoon looking for photo ops when I noticed a hummingbird browsing the Devil&#8217;s Tongue cactus in Verna&#8217;s rock and cactus garden across the RV driveway. I had the telephoto lens on the camera, so I shot several frames of the little bird doing its thing. This was the best of the shots. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>This cactus came with us from California when we picked and chose what was coming with us. There is also a golden barrel close by that came with us. A second Devil&#8217;s Tongue is a few yards away and aspiring to grow into the large stature of the other cacti we brought. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was in the courtyard this afternoon looking for photo ops when I noticed a hummingbird browsing the Devil&#8217;s Tongue cactus in Verna&#8217;s rock and cactus&#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":[38,12,39,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-flowers","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}