{"id":73183,"date":"2016-06-08T17:01:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T21:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=73183"},"modified":"2016-06-08T17:01:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-08T21:01:44","slug":"stipa-barbata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=73183","title":{"rendered":"Stipa barbata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><big><center><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/june2016\/5ce7a08e-a279-4b9e-a699-29fb98455631.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 5ce7a08e-a279-4b9e-a699-29fb98455631.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stipa barbata last night before sundown, appearing bioluminescent in the dwindling light, whipsawing back and forth in the late afternoon breeze like some flagelliform creature in an aquarium.<br \/>\nStill photos really can&#8217;t do it justice.  I need to work on my video skills.  In the calm of this morning, the grass was limp, docile, almost ordinary. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i52.photobucket.com\/albums\/g23\/botanizeme\/june2016\/291a07de-3410-4459-8a7c-5a63cc4fd7af.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\" photo 291a07de-3410-4459-8a7c-5a63cc4fd7af.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These two clumps have a lot of growing left to do.  This grass is famously slow to bulk up and stingy with its seed too.<br \/>\nBut in a breeze, they are as mesmerizing as &#8212; I don&#8217;t know, the last time I watched the jellyfish at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquariumofpacific.org\/\">Long Beach Aquarium<\/a>.<br \/>\nThat kind of mesmerizing.<\/p>\n<p><\/big><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stipa barbata last night before sundown, appearing bioluminescent in the dwindling light, whipsawing back and forth in the late afternoon breeze like some flagelliform creature in an aquarium. Still photos really can&#8217;t do it justice. I need to work on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/?p=73183\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[36],"tags":[4515],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paNJ2E-j2n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73183"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73183"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73232,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73183\/revisions\/73232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/agrowingobsession.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}