{"id":46517,"date":"2014-08-01T10:16:55","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T14:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=46517"},"modified":"2014-08-01T10:16:55","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T14:16:55","slug":"morning-eye-candy-smitten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/08\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-smitten\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Smitten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Mystic Illusion&#8217; makes its grand appearance in the <a title=\"Perennial Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/perennial-garden\">Perennial Garden<\/a>. It&#8217;s part of a series of simple and stunning dahlia cultivars that include &#8216;Mystic Dreamer&#8217;, &#8216;Mystic Spirit&#8217;, &#8216;Mystic Memories&#8217;, etc. I&#8217;m still smitten with this one in particular, though\u2014likely always will be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MEC-Mystic-Illusion.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"46518\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/08\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-smitten\/attachment\/mec-mystic-illusion\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MEC-Mystic-Illusion.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1000,667\" 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;1406545441&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.003125&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Dahlia &#8216;Mystic Illusion&#8217;\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MEC-Mystic-Illusion-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MEC-Mystic-Illusion.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-46518\" alt=\"Dahlia 'Mystic Illusion'\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MEC-Mystic-Illusion.jpg\" width=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MEC-Mystic-Illusion.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MEC-Mystic-Illusion-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Dahlia<\/em> &#8216;Mystic Illusion&#8217; in the <a title=\"Perennial Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/gardens\/perennial-garden\">Perennial Garden<\/a> \u2013 Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Name aside, this high-contrast dahlia&#8217;s not so illusory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":46518,"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":[199,1512,3406,4651,4640],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/MEC-Mystic-Illusion.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-c6h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46517"}],"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=46517"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46519,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46517\/revisions\/46519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}