{"id":42768,"date":"2014-01-17T06:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T11:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=42768"},"modified":"2014-01-14T15:59:19","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T20:59:19","slug":"morning-eye-candy-a-break-in-the-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/01\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-a-break-in-the-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: A Break In the Ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve seen them before, holes in an otherwise solid sheet of ice, formed by moving water, either from a spring or an aerator. But did you know they have a name? Welcome to your new favorite piece of trivia: They&#8217;re called Symmes Holes (see the bottom of <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/01\/09\/new-york-today-shed-a-layer\/\" target=\"_blank\">this story<\/a> for an explanation).<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/symmes-holes.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"42770\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/01\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-a-break-in-the-ice\/attachment\/symmes-holes\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/symmes-holes.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"580,392\" 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=\"symmes-holes\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/symmes-holes-300x202.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/symmes-holes.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42770\" alt=\"symmes-holes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/symmes-holes.jpg\" width=\"580\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/symmes-holes.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/symmes-holes-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/exhibitions\/2013\/native-plant-garden\/\">Native Plant Garden<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s your new favorite bit of naturalist trivia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":42769,"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":[1512,1877,3749],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/IVO_4850.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-b7O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42768"}],"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=42768"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42772,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42768\/revisions\/42772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}