{"id":12767,"date":"2017-08-07T18:39:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T23:39:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12767"},"modified":"2017-08-13T17:19:30","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T22:19:30","slug":"oak-leaf-skeleton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12767","title":{"rendered":"Oak Leaf Skeleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12769\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170807_145446.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12769\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170807_145446-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Oak Leaf Skeleton\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12769\" data-wp-pid=\"12769\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170807_145446-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170807_145446-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170807_145446-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170807_145446-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170807_145446-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/img_20170807_145446.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-12769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oak Leaf Skeleton<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A few years ago I planted a few fastigiate English oaks. The English oak, <em>Quercus robur<\/em> is a handsome tree with beautiful, gracefully lobed leaves, similar to the white oak, <em>Quercus alba<\/em> of North America. The trees I bought were a cultivar that grows very narrow and upright (which is what fastigiate means). I bought a bunch of small trees and planted planted them in various places around the yard, assuming some would not live but hoping at least one would. There is one growing to the north of the house and another in the back of the back yard. This leaf is on the second tree, in the back, and something has been eating the bulk of the leaf, leaving a skeleton and actually one surface of the leaf intact. I think it&#8217;s kind of beautiful, in spite of the fact that this is insect damage. There are enough untouched leaves that I&#8217;m not worried for the tree.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I planted a few fastigiate English oaks. The English oak, Quercus robur is a handsome tree with beautiful, gracefully lobed leaves, similar to the white oak, Quercus alba of North America. The trees I bought were a cultivar that grows very narrow and upright (which is what fastigiate means). I bought &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=12767\">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":[153,169,168],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767"}],"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=12767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12771,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12767\/revisions\/12771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}