{"id":24178,"date":"2012-05-30T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T10:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=24178"},"modified":"2012-05-29T12:27:51","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T16:27:51","slug":"morning-eye-candy-shady-acres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/05\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-shady-acres\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Better in the Shade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to wonder why we don&#8217;t have a spring groundhog popping up to predict six more weeks of chilly mornings and refreshing afternoons. Anyone who spent the Memorial Day afternoon in the boroughs will commiserate (at one point I felt compelled to fashion my jeans into capris&#8211;only the lack of scissors stopped me). But there&#8217;s relief beyond the swamp that is your conveniently central air-free apartment!<\/p>\n<p>Get to the <a title=\"The New York Botanical Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\">NYBG<\/a>, find a patch of shade (there&#8217;s plenty), and note that an easy <a title=\"Forest\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/thain-family-forest\/index.php\">Forest<\/a> breeze beats that rickety floor fan in your bedroom any day.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MEC-Raindrop.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"24182\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/05\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-shady-acres\/attachment\/mec-raindrop\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MEC-Raindrop.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1664\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1337763836&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Raindrop\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MEC-Raindrop-300x199.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MEC-Raindrop-1024x681.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-24182\" title=\"Raindrop\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MEC-Raindrop-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"567\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MEC-Raindrop-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MEC-Raindrop-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MEC-Raindrop.jpg 2500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That floor fan in your bedroom isn&#8217;t cutting it, is it? Get out and find some shade!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":24182,"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":[1075,1512,4640],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/MEC-Raindrop.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-6hY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24178"}],"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=24178"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24200,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24178\/revisions\/24200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}