{"id":812,"date":"2011-04-10T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-10T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/10\/cherry-plum-blossoms"},"modified":"2011-04-10T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2011-04-10T20:14:00","slug":"cherry-plum-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/10\/cherry-plum-blossoms","title":{"rendered":"Cherry Plum Blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>All the trees are braking out in blossoms, including my favorite <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cherry_plum\">cherry plum<\/a>. It&#8217;s a <i>prunus cerasifera &#8216;Nigra&#8217;<\/i>\u00a0(as far as I can tell) which means that instead of green leaves it grows red-brown leaves which get darker with time until they turn almost black in late summer. You can see some of the young leaves if you look closely.<\/p>\n<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/christiandoenges\/5607385162\/\" style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" title=\"Cherry Plum Blossoms by Christian Doenges, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cherry Plum Blossoms\" height=\"333\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5021\/5607385162_724a09d8e6.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Cherry Plum Blossoms<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>I took this picture during a lunch break, so the light was a bit harder than would have liked. But I adore its color and the light, springy (pun intended) feel of the image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All the trees are braking out in blossoms, including my favorite cherry plum. It&#8217;s a prunus cerasifera &#8216;Nigra&#8217;\u00a0(as far as I can tell) which means that instead of green leaves it grows red-brown leaves which get darker with time until they turn almost black in late summer. You can see some of the young leaves [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468,470,2,95,471],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blossom","category-cherry-plum","category-photo","category-sky","category-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","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=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doenges.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}