{"id":23452,"date":"2012-05-13T06:00:30","date_gmt":"2012-05-13T10:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=23452"},"modified":"2012-05-10T17:07:46","modified_gmt":"2012-05-10T21:07:46","slug":"morning-eye-candy-adage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/05\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-adage\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Adage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How does that adage go? Would you rather be a big duck in a little pond, or a little duck in a big pond? Clearly, this lady mallard&#8211;who looks right at home in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/home-gardening\/\">Home Gardening Center<\/a>&#8216;s rather small pond&#8211;has made up her mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/duck.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"23455\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/05\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-adage\/attachment\/duck\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/duck.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"580,392\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mallard in the Home Gardening Center Pond\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/duck-300x202.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/duck.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23455 aligncenter\" title=\"Mallard in the Home Gardening Center Pond\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/duck.jpg\" alt=\"Mallard in the Home Gardening Center Pond\" width=\"580\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/duck.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/duck-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Big Duck, Small Pond (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big duck, small pond.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":23454,"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":[146],"tags":[1135,38,4648,580],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/IVO3407.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-66g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23452"}],"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\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23452"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23459,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23452\/revisions\/23459"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}