{"id":1009,"date":"2007-08-08T03:46:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T03:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1009"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:32:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:32:04","slug":"summer-snowflakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1009","title":{"rendered":"Summer snowflakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/IMG_2831.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/IMG_2831-200x300.jpg\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5096154311668696962\" style=\"cursor: hand; float: right; margin: 0px 0px 10px 10px;\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size: 85%;\">Common as it is, Queen Anne&#8217;s Lace is a beautiful wildflower, I think. I found a nice patch backlit by the sun a few weeks ago and lost myself for a while in the varying forms the flowers take. As pretty as the tops of the flowers are, I think they&#8217;re much more interesting from below.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s said to attract more than 60 insects, beneficial pollinators among them, and makes a wonderful pressed flower. It&#8217;s easily confused with other poisonous members of the carrot family, like water-hemlock or poison hemlock, so be very careful before ever sampling the root.<\/p>\n<p>I was ready to say that this is probably my favorite of the late summer wildflowers, but then I thought of Joe Pye and New York Ironweed.  Both are just coming into bloom in my garden now and attracting swallowtails and monarchs.  It&#8217;s August suddenly and the summer is waning.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Common as it is, Queen Anne&#8217;s Lace is a beautiful wildflower, I think. I found a nice patch backlit by the sun a few weeks ago and lost myself for a while in the varying forms the flowers take. As pretty as the tops of the flowers are, I think they&#8217;re much more interesting from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1009\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Summer snowflakes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3463,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,3,2,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}