{"id":1359,"date":"2006-08-22T02:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-22T02:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1359"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:48:05","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:48:05","slug":"perfuming-the-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1359","title":{"rendered":"Perfuming the night"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/P8210098.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/08\/P8210098-300x225.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>Poised on its pistil<br \/>Getting the nod from dusk&#8217;s dawn<br \/>Night&#8217;s heady perfume<\/em><\/p>\n<p>haiku by C. Gardner<br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Watching the swallows and swifts this evening while I watered the garden, and waiting for the appearance of the bats overhead as my signal to go inside, I reached down to turn off the well pump and got a whiff of this moonflower &#8211; wow! Most of them are planted along the fence surrounding the pond, intermixed with day-blooming morning glories, but a few are in pots up beside the house, where on humid nights their lemony scent drifts in the windows. The smell can be overpowering enough to give me a headache, especially if we also have Angel&#8217;s Trumpets blooming. I loved the shape of this flower as it unfurled.<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><\/p>\n<div align=\"left\">Some cultural info about moonflowers is available in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1436\">this blog post<\/a> from 6\/8\/06.<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poised on its pistilGetting the nod from dusk&#8217;s dawnNight&#8217;s heady perfume haiku by C. Gardner Watching the swallows and swifts this evening while I watered the garden, and waiting for the appearance of the bats overhead as my signal to go inside, I reached down to turn off the well pump and got a whiff &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1359\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Perfuming the night<\/span> <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":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359"}],"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=1359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}