{"id":957,"date":"2009-07-08T19:10:33","date_gmt":"2009-07-09T05:10:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quillyscamera.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/05\/238-thistle\/"},"modified":"2009-08-14T16:12:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T02:12:33","slug":"238-thistle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/unshuttered\/2009\/07\/08\/238-thistle\/","title":{"rendered":"#238 &#8212; Teasel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 3px; text-align: center;\"><a title=\"photo sharing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quilldancer\/3686691758\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 2px solid #000000;\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2596\/3686691758_4711fe0005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"333\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Teasel 2009.<\/p>\n<p>Weeds need love, too.\u00c2\u00a0 This is probably one of my favorite photographs.\u00c2\u00a0 I knew it would be when I framed the shot.\u00c2\u00a0 This gorgeous plant, almost as tall as I am, is as fierce as it is beautiful and arms itself with vicious spikes.\u00c2\u00a0 In days past, the plant&#8217;s spiky flower was dried and used as a grooming comb.\u00c2\u00a0 Today the dried flowers are used in floral arrangements.\u00c2\u00a0 I like this one best growing wild near the edge of mt Aunt&#8217;s garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teasel 2009. Weeds need love, too.\u00c2\u00a0 This is probably one of my favorite photographs.\u00c2\u00a0 I knew it would be when I framed the shot.\u00c2\u00a0 This gorgeous plant, almost as tall as I am, is as fierce as it is beautiful and arms itself with vicious spikes.\u00c2\u00a0 In days past, the plant&#8217;s spiky flower was dried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[340,288],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photograph","tag-dried-flowers","tag-teasel-dipsacus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/unshuttered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/unshuttered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/unshuttered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/unshuttered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/unshuttered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=957"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/unshuttered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1110,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/unshuttered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/957\/revisions\/1110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/unshuttered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/unshuttered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.quilldancer.com\/unshuttered\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}