{"id":7323,"date":"2017-12-12T16:11:33","date_gmt":"2017-12-12T23:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/persistent-second-spring-weather\/"},"modified":"2017-12-12T16:11:33","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T23:11:33","slug":"persistent-second-spring-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/persistent-second-spring-weather\/","title":{"rendered":"Persistent Second Spring Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bottle-brush-flower.jpg' title='Bottle Brush'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/bottle-brush-flower.jpg' alt='Bottle Brush' width='272' \/><\/a>&nbsp;<a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/purple-devils-tongue-cactus-flower.jpg' title='Devil\u2019s Tongue Cactus Flower'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/purple-devils-tongue-cactus-flower.jpg' alt='Devil\u2019s Tongue Cactus Flower' width='272' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The butterflies, bees and hummingbirds are still going strong even though we&#8217;re in the middle of December. Our daytime temperatures have been in the mid to upper seventies and the nights, although cool, have been mild in the upper forties to lower fifties.<\/p>\n<p>I took both of these photos today. The flower on the left is on a bottle brush shrub in the courtyard and the  flower on the right is on a Devil&#8217;s Tongue barrel cactus in the rock and cactus xeriscape garden across the driveway to the west.<\/p>\n<p>The official first day of winter will be in a week or so, but we are hoping that our spring-like days will continue for a while. Click on either image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The butterflies, bees and hummingbirds are still going strong even though we&#8217;re in the middle of December. Our daytime temperatures have been in the mid&#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":[70,10,72,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-environment","category-flowers","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323","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=7323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}