{"id":7685,"date":"2024-04-25T21:52:17","date_gmt":"2024-04-26T04:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=7685"},"modified":"2024-04-25T21:52:17","modified_gmt":"2024-04-26T04:52:17","slug":"spring-flowers-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/25\/spring-flowers-opening\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Flowers Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240425-prickly-pear-cactus-flower.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240425-prickly-pear-cactus-flower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7686\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240425-prickly-pear-cactus-flower.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240425-prickly-pear-cactus-flower-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/20240425-prickly-pear-cactus-flower-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since we were <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/category\/vacation\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">late<\/a> to the grand flower opening at home this spring, we may have missed some of the cactus and other blooms in our xeriscape garden, but, not to worry &#8211; there are plenty more flowers coming soon. Verna snapped this photo today of a prickly pear cactus flower on the west side of our yard near the fence line. There were several flowers open today and there will be many more over the next few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Keep an eye out for more <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/category\/flowers\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">flowers<\/a> when they show up here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since we were late to the grand flower opening at home this spring, we may have missed some of the cactus and other blooms in our&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-flowers","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685","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=7685"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7689,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7685\/revisions\/7689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}