{"id":28116,"date":"2012-08-24T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T10:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=28116"},"modified":"2012-08-23T10:32:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:32:09","slug":"morning-eye-candy-windflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/08\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-windflower\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Windflower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why do they call it an anemone, anyway? At a glance, the flower doesn&#8217;t seem to have much in common with the seagoing variety. But according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word comes from the Greek for &#8220;daughter of the wind.&#8221; Most sea anemones seem to fit that description, waving as they do in the ocean currents, so I suppose a flower bobbing in the breeze is close enough.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Anemone-x-hybrida-Robustissima-03.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"28117\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/08\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-windflower\/attachment\/mec-anemone-x-hybrida-robustissima-03\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Anemone-x-hybrida-Robustissima-03.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1667\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS 5D Mark II&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1345431720&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;160&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Anemone x hybrida &#8216;Robustissima&#8217;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Anemone-x-hybrida-Robustissima-03-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Anemone-x-hybrida-Robustissima-03-1024x682.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-28117\" title=\"Anemone x hybrida 'Robustissima'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Anemone-x-hybrida-Robustissima-03-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Anemone-x-hybrida-Robustissima-03-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Anemone-x-hybrida-Robustissima-03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Anemone-x-hybrida-Robustissima-03.jpg 2500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do they call it an anemone, anyway?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":28117,"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":[2376,1512,4651,4640],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/MEC-Anemone-x-hybrida-Robustissima-03.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-7ju","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28116"}],"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=28116"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28119,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28116\/revisions\/28119"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}