{"id":2187,"date":"2013-08-22T10:35:02","date_gmt":"2013-08-22T15:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2187"},"modified":"2013-08-22T10:43:24","modified_gmt":"2013-08-22T15:43:24","slug":"birds-bees-flowers-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2187","title":{"rendered":"Birds, Bees, Flowers &#038; Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We let our backyard go a bit wild this year (life got ahead of us, in more ways than one), but the flowers and pond plants seem to be happier than ever.  We have a ton of bees this year, which is heartening to see, given how hard up bees are world-wide lately. You can see one of them (if you look closely) in the second picture down. (Click for hi-rez)<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PurpleFlowers_082213.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PurpleFlowers_082213-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Purple flowers in sunbeam\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" size-medium wp-image-2182\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PurpleFlowers_082213-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PurpleFlowers_082213-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PurpleFlower_With_Visitor.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PurpleFlower_With_Visitor-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Purple flowers - with visitor\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" size-medium wp-image-2183\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PurpleFlower_With_Visitor-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PurpleFlower_With_Visitor-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ColourRiot_082213.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ColourRiot_082213-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Coneflower (Echinacea) and False Sunflowers\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" size-medium wp-image-2184\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ColourRiot_082213-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/ColourRiot_082213-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PondLillies_082213.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PondLillies_082213-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Pond Lillies - August 2013\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" size-medium wp-image-2185\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PondLillies_082213-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PondLillies_082213-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PondLillies_2_082213.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PondLillies_2_082213-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Backyard Pond 2013\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" size-medium wp-image-2186\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PondLillies_2_082213-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/PondLillies_2_082213-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We let our backyard go a bit wild this year (life got ahead of us, in more ways than one), but the flowers and pond plants seem to be happier than ever. We have a ton of bees this year, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/?p=2187\">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":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[883,882,881,879,885,876,884],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2187"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2190,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2187\/revisions\/2190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.celticharper.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}