{"id":907,"date":"2013-03-16T18:59:08","date_gmt":"2013-03-16T23:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2013\/03\/16\/130316-texasmountainlaurel-2\/"},"modified":"2022-11-25T12:37:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-25T18:37:27","slug":"130316-texasmountainlaurel-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2013\/03\/16\/130316-texasmountainlaurel-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Mountain Laurel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an amazement, how this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/txmtnlaurel1.jpg\" alt=\"Photo - Texas Mountain Laurel buds\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;turns into this&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 1px solid #ccc;\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/images\/miscphotos\/txmtnlaurel2.jpg\" alt=\"Photo - Texas Mountain Laurel buds\"><\/p>\n<p>The West Texas landscape may be viewed by some as being &#8220;beauty-challenged,&#8221; (a description I strongly disagree with) but at least we have the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildflower.org\/plants\/result.php?id_plant=SOSE3\">Texas Mountain Laurel<\/a> in our corner. The fact that the blooms smell just like grape soda is icing on the cake.<\/p>\n<p><i>Both of the preceding scenes are found in our front yard today, on the same plant.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Texas Mountain Laurel adds a bit of striking beauty to the generally stark West Texas landscape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,66,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-plant-life","category-west-texas","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11409,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/11409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}