{"id":405,"date":"2009-06-30T04:17:07","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T03:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/?p=405"},"modified":"2009-06-24T19:52:12","modified_gmt":"2009-06-24T18:52:12","slug":"fern-spiral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/30\/fern-spiral","title":{"rendered":"Fern Spiral"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fern leaf unrolls itself from a tightly wound spiral towards the light as it grows.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doenges.com\/g\/v\/Nature\/fern-spiral.jpg.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/doenges.com\/photos\/albums\/Nature\/fern-spiral.jpg\" alt=\"A fresh fern leaf spirals up towards the light.\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\"\/> <\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fern Spiral<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ferns as a group are quite old &#8211; the fossil records date back to the early Carboniferous period, so roughly 360 million years ago, have been found. Isn&#8217;t it amazing that organisms are so well adapted that the species survives almost 400 million years and shows no sign of weakness?<\/p>\n<p>Even though this long history is certainly not unique to ferns, I always get the feeling that a dinosaur might peek through the leaves at me when I come across a fern &#8230; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A fern leaf unrolls itself from a tightly wound spiral towards the light as it grows. Ferns as a group are quite old &#8211; the fossil records date back to the early Carboniferous period, so roughly 360 million years ago, have been found. Isn&#8217;t it amazing that organisms are so well adapted that the species [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[772,771,775,574,773,774],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo","tag-fern","tag-green","tag-leaf","tag-photo","tag-plant","tag-spiral"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":419,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions\/419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}