{"id":43860,"date":"2014-03-15T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=43860"},"modified":"2014-03-14T16:42:07","modified_gmt":"2014-03-14T20:42:07","slug":"morning-eye-candy-a-crocus-in-focus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/03\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-a-crocus-in-focus\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: A Crocus in Focus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The crocus is a real early bird, one of the first to bloom when winter is at its end. Paired with the <a title=\"Plant Talk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/03\/horticulture-2\/snowdrops-sing-of-spring\/\">snowdrops<\/a> we have already seen, it&#8217;s a good sign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-purple-crocus-568x379.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"43861\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/03\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-a-crocus-in-focus\/attachment\/mec-purple-crocus-568x379\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-purple-crocus-568x379.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"568,379\" 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=\"MEC-purple-crocus-568&#215;379\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-purple-crocus-568x379-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-purple-crocus-568x379.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-43861\" alt=\"MEC-purple-crocus-568x379\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-purple-crocus-568x379.jpg\" width=\"568\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-purple-crocus-568x379.jpg 568w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-purple-crocus-568x379-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Crocus\u00a0<\/em>in the <a title=\"Seasonal Walk\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/seasonal-walk\">Seasonal Walk<\/a> &#8211; Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spy the powdery-purple petals of a crocus!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":43861,"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":[164,1512,94,4631],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/MEC-purple-crocus-568x379.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-bpq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43860"}],"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\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43860"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43871,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43860\/revisions\/43871"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}