{"id":4056,"date":"2011-01-22T16:42:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-22T23:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/22\/spikes-and-tufted-berries\/"},"modified":"2011-01-23T13:59:42","modified_gmt":"2011-01-23T20:59:42","slug":"spikes-and-tufted-berries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/01\/22\/spikes-and-tufted-berries\/","title":{"rendered":"Spikes and Tufted Berries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are several bushes scattered around the half-acre lot where our new house stands. I have no idea what these are, but they have some nasty spikes and red-orange berries with tufts of smaller hair-like spikes. I don&#8217;t know what it is, but I don&#8217;t want one of the dogs to come into contact with anything to do with this bush. There is a close-up of one of the berries in the inset. Does anyone know what this monster bush is? Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/spikes-berries.jpg' title='spikes-berries.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/spikes-berries.jpg' alt='spikes-berries.jpg' width='540' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Update: Reader Crotalus informs us that this is opuntia leptocaulis, commonly called Desert Christmas Cactus. Thanks, Crotalus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are several bushes scattered around the half-acre lot where our new house stands. I have no idea what these are, but they have some nasty&#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":[70,17,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-photography","category-retirement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056","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=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}