{"id":37992,"date":"2013-06-23T06:00:54","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T10:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=37992"},"modified":"2013-06-21T13:36:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-21T17:36:52","slug":"morning-eye-candy-heartfelt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/06\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-heartfelt\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Heartfelt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nifty <a title=\"Wild Medicine\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/wildmedicine\/\"><i>Wild Medicine<\/i><\/a> factoid: it&#8217;s been found that residents of the islands east of Panama, who drink a lightly-processed cocoa beverage up to five times a day, are <a title=\"NCBI\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/16794446\" target=\"_blank\">almost entirely free of hypertension<\/a>. Researchers lean toward the chocolate as a prime suspect in this discovery, though I&#8217;m guessing most of us don&#8217;t need a peer-reviewed report to justify buying ourselves a treat now and then. Just remember to go for the real thing\u2014at least 70% cacao!<\/p>\n<p>Check out our cacao-focused table in the <a title=\"Enid A. Haupt Conservatory\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/conservatory\/\">Conservatory<\/a> when you visit, and be sure to keep an eye out for the pods growing in our cacao trees.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MEC-Cacao-Summer.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"37993\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/06\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-heartfelt\/attachment\/mec-cacao-summer\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MEC-Cacao-Summer.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1800,2700\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&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;1371633804&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;1600&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Cacao\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MEC-Cacao-Summer-200x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MEC-Cacao-Summer-682x1024.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-37993\" alt=\"Cacao\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MEC-Cacao-Summer-682x1024.jpg\" width=\"515\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MEC-Cacao-Summer-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MEC-Cacao-Summer-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/MEC-Cacao-Summer.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll welcome any mandate to eat more chocolate, honestly.<\/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":[2778,2981,672,1512,3096],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-9SM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37992"}],"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=37992"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37997,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37992\/revisions\/37997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}