{"id":7692,"date":"2024-05-04T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-05T04:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=7692"},"modified":"2024-05-04T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2024-05-05T04:38:00","slug":"buckhorn-cholla-cactus-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/04\/buckhorn-cholla-cactus-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckhorn Cholla Cactus Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240504-delicate-cholla-flower.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240504-delicate-cholla-flower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7693\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240504-delicate-cholla-flower.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240504-delicate-cholla-flower-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240504-delicate-cholla-flower-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Verna sent me up into the wash behind our house on the west side to fetch a plastic water bottle that had blown in or washed in from the construction up on the hill behind our house. I did as she said and retrieved the bottle but while I was up there, I saw this nice cactus flower. I used my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/us\/smartphones\/galaxy-s23\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Samsung Galaxy S23<\/a> phone camera to catch this photo of the flower.<\/p>\n<p>The flower is blooming on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.americansouthwest.net\/plants\/cacti\/cylindropuntia-acanthocarpa.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buckhorn Cholla Cactus<\/a>, which is growing in the wild in our back yard. There are a lot of these open today on the several Buckhorn Cacti, but this one seemed to be the prettiest.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to enlarge in the image viewer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verna sent me up into the wash behind our house on the west side to fetch a plastic water bottle that had blown in or washed&#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-7692","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\/7692","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=7692"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7697,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7692\/revisions\/7697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}