{"id":37107,"date":"2013-05-24T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2013-05-24T10:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=37107"},"modified":"2013-05-24T11:47:40","modified_gmt":"2013-05-24T15:47:40","slug":"morning-eye-candy-playing-favorites-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/05\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-playing-favorites-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Playing Favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know that when you work at a botanical garden, you&#8217;re not supposed to play favorites, but I just can&#8217;t help it. Of all the late spring flowers, irises are unquestionably my favorite! It&#8217;s their soda pop fragrance combined with their rococo frilliness. If you had to pick one garden flower to love forever, which one would it be?<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/iris.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"37109\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/05\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-playing-favorites-2\/attachment\/iris\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/iris.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"392,580\" 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=\"iris\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/iris-202x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/iris.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37109\" alt=\"iris\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/iris.jpg\" width=\"392\" height=\"580\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/iris.jpg 392w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/iris-202x300.jpg 202w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 392px) 100vw, 392px\" \/><\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Irises in the <em>Italian Renaissance Garden<\/em> (photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you had to pick one garden flower to love forever, which one would it be? For me it will always be the iris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":37108,"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":[3289,2375,1470,1512],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/IVO0406.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-9Ev","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37107"}],"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=37107"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37112,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37107\/revisions\/37112"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}