{"id":1254,"date":"2007-06-28T08:33:04","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/whirligig\/"},"modified":"2007-06-28T08:33:04","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T15:33:04","slug":"whirligig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/06\/28\/whirligig\/","title":{"rendered":"Whirligig"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whirligig is the nickname given to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desert-tropicals.com\/Plants\/Asteraceae\/Osteospermum_fruticosum.html\">Trailing African Daisy<\/a> (osteospermum fruticosum). I snapped this picture last week at the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2007\/06\/23\/summer-in-the-botanical-garden\/\">Botanic Garden<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1253\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/african-daisy.jpg\" alt=\"african-daisy.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Whirligig is a member of the Aster family, closely related to other mums and daisies with a single-tier of petals. It propagates well from cuttings and does well in the Southwestern United States. According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desert-tropicals.com\/Plants\/Asteraceae\/Osteospermum_fruticosum.html\">Desert Tropicals<\/a> website (Phoenix, AZ) this flower suffers in hotter climates like Phoenix, but is hardy when it comes to tolerating frost. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whirligig is the nickname given to this Trailing African Daisy (osteospermum fruticosum). I snapped this picture last week at the Botanic Garden. The Whirligig is a&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}