{"id":45998,"date":"2014-07-08T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T10:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=45998"},"modified":"2014-07-07T16:48:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T20:48:42","slug":"morning-eye-candy-up-from-the-mire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/07\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-up-from-the-mire\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Up from the Mire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What was it that I said recently about the lotus blossoms not being far behind the <em>Nymphaea<\/em>? The <a title=\"Enid A. Haupt Conservatory\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/conservatory\">Conservatory<\/a> pools are far from the proverbial mud that the lotus is famous for emerging from, yet the persevering beauty of these plants is nonetheless potent.<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Lotus-Blossom.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"45999\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/07\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-up-from-the-mire\/attachment\/mec-lotus-blossom\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Lotus-Blossom.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,667\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;5.6&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;1404212885&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Lotus\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Lotus-Blossom-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Lotus-Blossom.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-45999\" alt=\"Lotus\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Lotus-Blossom.jpg\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Lotus-Blossom.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Lotus-Blossom-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Lotus (<em>Nelumbo nucifera<\/em>) in the Conservatory Pools \u2013 Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lotus blossoms in the Conservatory pool bring with them a touch of the mythical.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":45999,"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":[4671,31,1512,4068,4640],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/MEC-Lotus-Blossom.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-bXU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45998"}],"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=45998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46000,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45998\/revisions\/46000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}