{"id":21957,"date":"2018-04-27T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/?p=21957"},"modified":"2018-04-26T23:02:33","modified_gmt":"2018-04-27T03:02:33","slug":"per-the-ancient-lore-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/2018\/04\/per-the-ancient-lore-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Per the ancient lore, part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/AlienTree.jpg\" alt=\"unidentified weird tree or bush or weed or something\" width=\"750\" height=\"1000\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21958\" \/><br clear=\"all\"\/>This week, we&#8217;re poking into the Leaves\/Plants\/Trees folder, to showcase this&#8230; <em>something<\/em>&#8230; found occasionally in Florida. The shooting angle implies that it&#8217;s tall, but not terribly so if I remember correctly<strong>;<\/strong> no more than five meters, but I think between three and four. What it really is, I couldn&#8217;t tell you. I shot it because I found it bizarre and rather prehistoric-looking, or so we have imagined such things to be from the fossil record, but it&#8217;s also notably geometric, vaguely asparagus-like (<em>blerk<\/em>,) and not exactly healthy in appearance to boot.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, it has <em>all<\/em> of those qualities, and is <em>not<\/em> a boring, simple pic that I shot on a whim while passing. I don&#8217;t <em>do<\/em> that kind of thing. It&#8217;s just like all those examples of literature that you couldn&#8217;t see the appeal of<strong>:<\/strong> you&#8217;re just not <em>sophisticated<\/em> enough to understand the deeper meaning of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we&#8217;re poking into the Leaves\/Plants\/Trees folder, to showcase this&#8230; something&#8230; found occasionally in Florida. The shooting angle implies that it&#8217;s tall, but not terribly so if I remember correctly; no more than five meters, but I think between three and four. What it really is, I couldn&#8217;t tell you. I shot it because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[4368,4366,4367],"class_list":["post-21957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nature","category-photo","tag-pompous-assholery","tag-prehistoric-asparagus","tag-yeah-it-sucks-dont-tell-anyone"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wading-in.net\/walkabout\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}