{"id":2716,"date":"2013-01-20T23:44:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T04:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=2716"},"modified":"2013-01-29T15:49:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T20:49:49","slug":"sycamores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=2716","title":{"rendered":"Sycamores"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2718\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_20130120_050604.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2718\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_20130120_050604-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Sycamore Tree\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_20130120_050604-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_20130120_050604-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_20130120_050604-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_20130120_050604-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/img_20130120_050604.jpg 833w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2718\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sycamore Tree<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I think if I had to pick one tree that I love to see against a deep blue sky, the sycamore tree would have to be a contender. The white and grey bark are set off so well against the blue of a winter sky.<\/p>\n<p>Sycamore is a name that has been applied to three types of tree. First, there is the sycamore of the Bible, the sycamore fig, <em>Ficus sycomorus<\/em>. Then, <em>Acer pseudoplatanus<\/em>, the sycamore maple of Britain and Ireland. Finally, three species of the <em>Platanus<\/em>, the sycamores of North America, known as plane trees in Europe. The American sycamore is <em>Platanus occidentalis<\/em>, and that is what I have pictured here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think if I had to pick one tree that I love to see against a deep blue sky, the sycamore tree would have to be a contender. The white and grey bark are set off so well against the blue of a winter sky. Sycamore is a name that has been applied to three &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=2716\">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":[3,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716"}],"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=2716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2751,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2716\/revisions\/2751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}