{"id":12036,"date":"2017-03-30T17:41:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T22:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12036"},"modified":"2017-04-03T06:53:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T11:53:57","slug":"spiraea-japonica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12036","title":{"rendered":"<em>Spiraea japonica<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12038\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170330_137288.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12038\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170330_137288-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Spiraea japonica\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12038\" data-wp-pid=\"12038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170330_137288-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170330_137288-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170330_137288-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170330_137288-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170330_137288-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/img_20170330_137288.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Spiraea japonica<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>This largish <em>Spiraea japonica<\/em> was in our back yard when we bought the house. Every few years I cut it back quite hard and it rewards us with a wonderful show of airy, white blossoms each spring. There&#8217;s actually a cherry seedling growing up through the middle of it, which I need to chop down one of these days, but that&#8217;s neither here nor there. The small white flowers are pretty on their own but of course it&#8217;s the effect of a seven foot shrub covered in them that&#8217;s the real show. Aside from the occasional once over with a hedge trimmer, it takes virtually no work at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This largish Spiraea japonica was in our back yard when we bought the house. Every few years I cut it back quite hard and it rewards us with a wonderful show of airy, white blossoms each spring. There&#8217;s actually a cherry seedling growing up through the middle of it, which I need to chop down &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12036\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12036"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12039,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036\/revisions\/12039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}