{"id":14287,"date":"2018-04-29T09:11:16","date_gmt":"2018-04-29T14:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14287"},"modified":"2018-05-04T07:47:26","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T12:47:26","slug":"pieris-japonica-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14287","title":{"rendered":"<em>Pieris japonica<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14289\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180429_152679.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-14289\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180429_152679-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Pieris japonica\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14289\" data-wp-pid=\"14289\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180429_152679-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180429_152679-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180429_152679-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180429_152679-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180429_152679-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/img_20180429_152679.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-14289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Pieris japonica<\/em><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Yesterday I had a picture of relatively inconsequential flowers. Well, they are inconsequential to us because they aren&#8217;t all that pretty, but they are fairly consequential to the plants that have them. Also, they have a wonderful, sweet aroma. Today, we have leaves that are as pretty as (or prettier than) many flowers. They have no aroma, of course, but they are quite striking. This is a variety of <em>Pieris japonica<\/em> (Japanese andromeda), possibly \u2018Mountain Fire\u2019 or something similar. The new leaves are a bright red, visible from quite a distance against the glossy green of last years foliage. By the middle of summer these new leaves will have faded to green, as well, but for now, it&#8217;s a brilliant display.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I had a picture of relatively inconsequential flowers. Well, they are inconsequential to us because they aren&#8217;t all that pretty, but they are fairly consequential to the plants that have them. Also, they have a wonderful, sweet aroma. Today, we have leaves that are as pretty as (or prettier than) many flowers. They have &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=14287\">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":[242,518,519,205,612],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287"}],"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=14287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14290,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14287\/revisions\/14290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}