{"id":51947,"date":"2015-12-22T11:09:12","date_gmt":"2015-12-22T16:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=51947"},"modified":"2015-12-22T11:09:12","modified_gmt":"2015-12-22T16:09:12","slug":"morning-eye-candy-the-shortest-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2015\/12\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-the-shortest-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: The Shortest Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy winter solstice! Or what passes for one, anyway. While it&#8217;s supposedly the first day of winter\u2014the shortest day of the year and the longest night, in fact\u2014you&#8217;ll still find green lawns and the occasional early fall sky to look forward to when you visit NYBG. We anxiously await the first snowfall!<\/p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/MEC-winter-solstice.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"51948\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2015\/12\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-the-shortest-day\/attachment\/mec-winter-solstice\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/MEC-winter-solstice.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1200,800\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&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;1450262621&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;67&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;320&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.004&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Library Building\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/MEC-winter-solstice-300x200.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/MEC-winter-solstice-1024x683.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-51948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/MEC-winter-solstice-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Library Building\" width=\"570\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/MEC-winter-solstice-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/MEC-winter-solstice-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/MEC-winter-solstice.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">The Library Building &amp; Tulip Tree All\u00e9e \u2013 Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While it&#8217;s supposedly the first day of winter\u2014the shortest day of the year and the longest night, in fact\u2014you&#8217;ll still find green lawns and the occasional early fall sky to look forward to when you visit NYBG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":51948,"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":[4667,1512,3372,4631],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/MEC-winter-solstice.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-dvR","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51947"}],"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=51947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51949,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51947\/revisions\/51949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}