{"id":8402,"date":"2026-05-02T15:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=8402"},"modified":"2026-05-02T15:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T22:37:07","slug":"an-astrophytum-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/02\/an-astrophytum-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"An Astrophytum Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260502-astrophytum-flower.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260502-astrophytum-flower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260502-astrophytum-flower.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260502-astrophytum-flower-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260502-astrophytum-flower-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the weather continues to warm as it is wont to do in late spring, more flowers are opening. This astrophytum (star cactus) flower opened in all its glory this afternoon in our cactus garden by the courtyard. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h4>Beltane<\/h4>\n<p>Today, we celebrated Beltane, a traditional Celtic holiday but with a definite US twist by having what amounts to a New England <a href=\"http:\/\/food.vernabob.com\/2026\/05\/02\/beltane-classic-irish-corned-beef-dinner\/\" target=\"_blank\">Corned Beef and Cabbage<\/a> dinner. Everyone enjoyed the meal and the ancestral atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/beltane.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"167\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6369\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the weather continues to warm as it is wont to do in late spring, more flowers are opening. This astrophytum (star cactus) flower opened in&#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":[38,17,39,35,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-climate","category-flowers","category-holidays","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402","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=8402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8406,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8402\/revisions\/8406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}