{"id":6754,"date":"2015-09-25T11:42:39","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T18:42:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/09\/25\/second-spring-2\/"},"modified":"2015-09-25T11:42:39","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T18:42:39","slug":"second-spring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/09\/25\/second-spring-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Second Spring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While most of the northern hemisphere marks the beginning of fall, we, here in the Arizona Desert celebrate the beginning of &#8220;Second Spring.&#8221; The summer monsoons are gone and the flowers are opening again.<\/p>\n<p>Here are three open flowers on my Devil&#8217;s Tongue Barrel Cactus with several more flower pods set to open:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/devils-tongue-flowers.jpg' title='Devil\u2019s Tongue Flowers'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/devils-tongue-flowers.jpg' alt='Devil\u2019s Tongue Flowers' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Star Cactus flower was open when we got home from California:<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/star-cactus-flower.jpg' title='Star Cactus Flower'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/star-cactus-flower.jpg' alt='Star Cactus Flower' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Finally, a lone flower blossomed atop one of the Buckhorn Cholla in the west cactus garden: <\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/second-spring-cholla-flower.jpg' title='Cholla Flower'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/second-spring-cholla-flower.jpg' alt='Cholla Flower' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click on any image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While most of the northern hemisphere marks the beginning of fall, we, here in the Arizona Desert celebrate the beginning of &#8220;Second Spring.&#8221; The summer monsoons&#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-6754","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\/6754","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=6754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}