{"id":512,"date":"2009-04-14T02:30:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T02:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:13:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:13:02","slug":"bloodroot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=512","title":{"rendered":"Bloodroot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bloodroot.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324362602586474866\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 267px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bloodroot-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Books say improbable things about Bloodroot like that it blooms in colonies and that its seeds are spread around the forest by ants.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/SePvfTfQyNI\/AAAAAAAADZw\/bEDIUw_6h94\/s800-h\/bloodroot4.jpg\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324362505568438482\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bloodroot4-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">If the ants were doing their job, Bloodroot would be easier to find. The woods would be carpeted with it, like they are with Spring Beauties and Squill, now.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/SePvYVR-kYI\/AAAAAAAADZo\/s9mF4pqj5_0\/s800-h\/bloodroot3.jpg\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324362385790505346\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bloodroot3-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">As it is, I have to get my knees muddy searching for it. If the forest faeries are feeling a need for amusement, they&#8217;ll send a couple teenagers along the path to find me butt-up and nose-down in the shady leaf mold.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/SePvO_6LQkI\/AAAAAAAADZg\/OiFQYsqdh78\/s800-h\/bloodroot2.jpg\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324362225434706498\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/04\/bloodroot2-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">Pride and decorum be damned, there&#8217;s only so many spring days to find Bloodroot. I&#8217;m glad to have enjoyed it for another year. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Books say improbable things about Bloodroot like that it blooms in colonies and that its seeds are spread around the forest by ants. If the ants were doing their job, Bloodroot would be easier to find. The woods would be carpeted with it, like they are with Spring Beauties and Squill, now. As it is, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=512\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bloodroot<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3,2,8,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512"}],"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=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}