{"id":581,"date":"2007-09-01T09:41:45","date_gmt":"2007-09-01T16:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/01\/alpha-and-omega\/"},"modified":"2007-09-01T09:42:21","modified_gmt":"2007-09-01T16:42:21","slug":"alpha-and-omega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/01\/alpha-and-omega\/","title":{"rendered":"Alpha and Omega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/more2come.jpg\" title=\"more2come.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1397\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/more2come.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"more2come.jpg\" class=\"right\" \/><\/a>Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters, respectively, in the Greek alphabet, or so I&#8217;m told. That just sounded like a good title for this post since I have a feeling that the blooming season is about over for the Cereus cactus in our garden. The <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/05\/31\/first-cactus-flower-of-the-season\/\">First Flower<\/a> popped out around the end of May, leading up to a <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/08\/19\/profusion-of-cactus-blossoms\/\">Profusion<\/a> of blooms a couple of weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>This little bud may be one of the last blooms of the season. It looks formidable surrounded by spines, but it is destined to be <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/07\/13\/cactus-flower-bonanza\/\">another gorgeous flower<\/a>. Click on the image at the left for a really close-up view. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpha and Omega are the first and last letters, respectively, in the Greek alphabet, or so I&#8217;m told. That just sounded like a good title for&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","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=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}