{"id":39,"date":"2007-09-18T13:35:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T20:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/39"},"modified":"2007-09-18T14:32:35","modified_gmt":"2007-09-18T21:32:35","slug":"delicious-dahlias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/delicious-dahlias\/","title":{"rendered":"Delicious Dahlias"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" width=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/revolving\/dahlias2.jpg\" hspace=\"8\" height=\"300\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 300px\" \/>I took my camera with me when I ran errands yesterday&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t often do that because it is heavy and a pain to haul around.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But I was rewarded when I came upon a garden of dahlias &#8211; standing taller than I am &#8211; some nearly 7 feet, with blooms as big as a dinner plate.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0The sky was lightly overcast giving me perfect lighting to capture the glorious colors.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve added several to the &#8220;Through My Lens&#8221; rotation to the right, but wanted to feature a couple of them for you here.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\" width=\"200\" src=\"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/revolving\/firedahl.jpg\" hspace=\"8\" alt=\"Fire Dahlia\" height=\"133\" style=\"width: 200px; height: 133px\" title=\"Fire Dahlia\" \/>The gardener was delighted when I asked if I could photograph his bounty and proceeded to tell me all about his floral babies.<\/p>\n<p>This one was larger than my spread hand and\u00c2\u00a0looked like a flower of flames&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 very cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took my camera with me when I ran errands yesterday&#8230;.\u00c2\u00a0 I don&#8217;t often do that because it is heavy and a pain to haul around.\u00c2\u00a0 But I was rewarded when I came upon a garden of dahlias &#8211; standing taller than I am &#8211; some nearly 7 feet, with blooms as big as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/delicious-dahlias\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Delicious Dahlias<\/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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}