{"id":39843,"date":"2013-08-27T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T10:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=39843"},"modified":"2013-08-26T12:35:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T16:35:09","slug":"morning-eye-candy-rewarding-tedium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/08\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-rewarding-tedium\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Rewarding Tedium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Coaxing our <i>kiku<\/i> to life is an exercise in daily tedium, sure, but these nurturing hours add up to some of the most breathtaking chrysanthemum displays you&#8217;ll ever witness. The end result is easily greater than the sum of its parts.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Kiku-in-Process.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"39853\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2013\/08\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-rewarding-tedium\/attachment\/mec-kiku-in-process\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Kiku-in-Process.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2500,1667\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;thebluroffice&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon EOS-1Ds Mark III&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1377098097&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;70&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;250&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0015625&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kiku in Process\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Kiku-in-Process-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Kiku-in-Process-1024x682.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-39853\" alt=\"Kiku in Process\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Kiku-in-Process-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"567\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Kiku-in-Process-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Kiku-in-Process-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-Kiku-in-Process.jpg 2500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 567px) 100vw, 567px\" \/><\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With kiku, the end result is greater than the sum of its parts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":39846,"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":[1512,4640,4634],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/MEC-In-the-Trees.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-amD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39843"}],"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=39843"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39856,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39843\/revisions\/39856"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}