{"id":6229,"date":"2014-07-04T16:13:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T23:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/07\/04\/fourth-of-july-cereus-cactus-flower\/"},"modified":"2014-07-04T16:13:39","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T23:13:39","slug":"fourth-of-july-cereus-cactus-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2014\/07\/04\/fourth-of-july-cereus-cactus-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth of July Cereus Cactus Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/4th-of-july-cereus.jpg' title='Cereus Cactus Flower'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/4th-of-july-cereus.jpg' alt='Cereus Cactus Flower' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The monsoons started last evening. I guess the rainfall prompted one flower on my protected* cereus cactus to open during the night. I was fortunate enough to get this photo before the flower wilted a couple of hours later. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Independence Day!<\/p>\n<p>* Protected because I keep the pots surrounded with fine wire mesh to keep the desert critters from eating the flower buds before they have a chance to open.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monsoons started last evening. I guess the rainfall prompted one flower on my protected* cereus cactus to open during the night. I was fortunate enough&#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-6229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-flowers","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}