{"id":6516,"date":"2015-03-27T19:32:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T02:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/03\/27\/argentine-giant-flowers-coming-soon\/"},"modified":"2015-03-27T19:32:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T02:32:00","slug":"argentine-giant-flowers-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/03\/27\/argentine-giant-flowers-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Argentine Giant Flowers Coming Soon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/argentine-giant-flower-buds.jpg' title='three flower buds'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/argentine-giant-flower-buds.jpg' alt='three flower buds' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My Argentine Giant cactus has several buds on it that will likely open into giant white flowers. It will probably be a couple of days, but three of the five buds are almost ready to pop open with the beautiful flowers. The other two flower buds will follow with a couple more flowers a bit later.<\/p>\n<p>The cactus isn\u2019t particularly a giant, but the six-to-eight inch diameter flowers certainly are, among common cactus flowers. The cactus itself is only about fifteen inches tall, hardly a giant when compared to the saguaro, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>The flowers smell like a fresh sea breeze the evening they open. I will post pictures of the flowers when they open. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Argentine Giant cactus has several buds on it that will likely open into giant white flowers. It will probably be a couple of days, but&#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":[70,72,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-flowers","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516","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=6516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}