{"id":5459,"date":"2014-03-20T18:02:07","date_gmt":"2014-03-20T23:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=5459"},"modified":"2014-03-20T22:24:10","modified_gmt":"2014-03-21T03:24:10","slug":"sprouting-peony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=5459","title":{"rendered":"Sprouting Peony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5461\" style=\"width: 243px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/img_20140320_078917.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5461\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/img_20140320_078917-233x350.jpg\" alt=\"Peony Sprout\" width=\"233\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5461\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/img_20140320_078917-233x350.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/img_20140320_078917-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/img_20140320_078917-400x600.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/img_20140320_078917-800x1200.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/img_20140320_078917.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5461\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Peony Sprout<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Spring is an unstoppable force and it&#8217;s coming. On Monday we had 8 to 10 inches of snow covering everything. Now, a mere three days later, there isn&#8217;t any snow left at all and it feels like spring again. The snowdrops and <em>Eranthis<\/em> that I photographed recently look as though they didn&#8217;t know anything about being covered with snow. They are happily blooming again (or still), now that the snow is gone.<\/p>\n<p>Around the side of the house, a more exciting sign of spring is the small, bright red shoots of the peony are coming up. Are you a fan of peonies? I am and need more of them. Their bloom is all too short but while they are blooming, they are amazing. Before you know it, this tiny red stem will have a huge ball of petals balanced at the top.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t wait.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring is an unstoppable force and it&#8217;s coming. On Monday we had 8 to 10 inches of snow covering everything. Now, a mere three days later, there isn&#8217;t any snow left at all and it feels like spring again. The snowdrops and Eranthis that I photographed recently look as though they didn&#8217;t know anything about &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=5459\">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\/5459"}],"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=5459"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5464,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5459\/revisions\/5464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}