{"id":32069,"date":"2013-01-01T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T11:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=32069"},"modified":"2013-01-01T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-01T11:00:55","slug":"morning-eye-candy-rising-to-the-occasion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/01\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-rising-to-the-occasion\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Rising to the Occasion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seeing the snowdrops pull themselves up by their bootstraps over the last month was a strange sight, if only because they&#8217;re not scheduled to arrive until the first moments of spring. But while their seasonal confusion was a little disconcerting, to see these coy troopers toughing out the worsening cold still proved a pleasant inspiration.<\/p>\n<p>We wish you each an unequivocally successful year in 2013, and may you find your own bootstraps in the face of whatever 2012 had to throw at you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/?attachment_id=32071\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32071\"><img data-attachment-id=\"32071\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/01\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-rising-to-the-occasion\/attachment\/mec-snowdrop-in-winter\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Snowdrop-in-Winter.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"673,1024\" 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=\"Winter snowdrops\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Snowdrop-in-Winter-197x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Snowdrop-in-Winter.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32071\" alt=\"Winter snowdrops\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Snowdrop-in-Winter.jpg\" width=\"515\" height=\"783\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Snowdrop-in-Winter.jpg 673w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/MEC-Snowdrop-in-Winter-197x300.jpg 197w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Photo by <a title=\"Amy's Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wundoroo\/8275900916\/in\/photostream\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Weiss<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy New Year (from the seasonally confused snowdrops)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":0,"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":[1512,1121,1269,4631],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-8lf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32069"}],"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=32069"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32094,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32069\/revisions\/32094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}