{"id":370,"date":"2006-03-10T07:34:15","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T15:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=370"},"modified":"2007-02-02T10:37:40","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T18:37:40","slug":"vivid-violet-and-mellow-yellow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/03\/10\/vivid-violet-and-mellow-yellow\/","title":{"rendered":"Vivid Violet and Mellow Yellow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crocus\">Crocus<\/a> is a genus of perennial flowering plants that grows from a corm (a tuber or root), which is native from the Aegean, across Central Asia. Often referred to as &#8220;Dutch&#8221; Crocus, these were only seen in Europe after the 16th century. The spice <em>saffron <\/em>is obtained from the stamens of Crocus sativus, a fall-blooming species. The name of the genus is derived from the Latin adjective crocatus, meaning saffron yellow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0603\/crocus.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I photographed this little beauty where it lives in a whiskey barrel planter in the backyard yesterday. <\/p>\n<p>By the way, <em>saffron <\/em>and <em>rosemary <\/em>in rice is an elegant side dish, but that&#8217;s another blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crocus is a genus of perennial flowering plants that grows from a corm (a tuber or root), which is native from the Aegean, across Central Asia.&#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-370","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\/370","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=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}