{"id":25139,"date":"2012-06-16T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=25139"},"modified":"2012-06-13T16:14:02","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T20:14:02","slug":"morning-eye-candy-natures-petit-fours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/06\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-natures-petit-fours\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Nature&#8217;s Petit Fours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes I&#8217;ll come across something that looks like a sorbet, a baked tart, or a platter of colorful petit fours, knowing full well that nature usually does a better job of making things look &#8220;good enough to eat&#8221; than the local confectioner. Not that the poison control hotline would humor me if I acted on all of these novel compulsions, but, hey, it&#8217;s just a thought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Iris-ensata-Gusto-03.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"25140\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/06\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-natures-petit-fours\/attachment\/mec-iris-ensata-gusto-03\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Iris-ensata-Gusto-03.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1500,2254\" 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;1338997822&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;105&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0025&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Iris ensata &#8216;Gusto&#8217;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Iris-ensata-Gusto-03-199x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Iris-ensata-Gusto-03-681x1024.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-25140\" title=\"Iris ensata 'Gusto'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Iris-ensata-Gusto-03-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"775\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Iris-ensata-Gusto-03-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Iris-ensata-Gusto-03-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Iris-ensata-Gusto-03.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Iris ensata<\/em> &#8216;Gusto&#8217; &#8212; Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They look good enough to eat, at least.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":25140,"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":[2561,2375,1082,1512,192],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/MEC-Iris-ensata-Gusto-03.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-6xt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139"}],"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=25139"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25144,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25139\/revisions\/25144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}