{"id":22746,"date":"2012-04-21T06:00:09","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T10:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=22746"},"modified":"2012-04-23T10:29:49","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T14:29:49","slug":"morning-eye-candy-that-perfume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/04\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-that-perfume\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: That Perfume"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had trekked over to the <a title=\"Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/rose-garden\/\">Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden<\/a> a few days ago to get a closer look at the tree peonies, passing by the lilacs on the way back. The aroma&#8211;it was like walking face-first into a pole, it was so sudden and powerful. Everyone gathered near the flowers was nodding and smiling contentedly, though whether in unspoken acknowledgement of one another, or in quiet appreciation of the perfume, I couldn&#8217;t say.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Syringa-vulgaris-President-Lincoln-01.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"22747\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/04\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-that-perfume\/attachment\/syringa-vulgaris-president-lincoln-01\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Syringa-vulgaris-President-Lincoln-01.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1664\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1334572022&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0005&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Syringa vulgaris &#8216;President Lincoln&#8217;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Syringa-vulgaris-President-Lincoln-01-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Syringa-vulgaris-President-Lincoln-01-1024x681.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-22747\" title=\"Syringa vulgaris 'President Lincoln'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Syringa-vulgaris-President-Lincoln-01-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Syringa-vulgaris-President-Lincoln-01-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Syringa-vulgaris-President-Lincoln-01-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Syringa-vulgaris-President-Lincoln-01.jpg 2500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Syringa vulgaris<\/em> &#8216;President Lincoln&#8217; &#8212; Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a cloud of intoxicating perfume hanging about near the Rose Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":22747,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952,146],"tags":[2374,1512],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Syringa-vulgaris-President-Lincoln-01.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-5US","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22746"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22751,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22746\/revisions\/22751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}