{"id":36,"date":"2012-08-13T17:09:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/?p=36"},"modified":"2012-08-13T17:20:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T15:20:36","slug":"pincushion-flowers-in-bloom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/?p=36","title":{"rendered":"Pincushion flowers in bloom"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-36 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_1485.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_1485-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_1486.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_1486-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_1604.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/DSC_1604-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>A couple of shots of my mom&#8217;s favourite <a href=\"http:\/\/protea.worldonline.co.za\/pingal.htm\" target=\"_blank\">pincushion protea bush<\/a> in full bloom. I&#8217;m not sure which of the many species this one is.<\/p>\n<p>The intense colours are reminiscent of flames and wildfires, which is somewhat ironic since, like most fynbos, proteas need to be burned out every few years to clear the dead growth and trigger the seeds of the next generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of shots of my mom&#8217;s favourite pincushion protea bush in full bloom. I&#8217;m not sure which of the many species this one is. The intense colours are reminiscent of flames and wildfires, which is somewhat ironic since, like most fynbos, proteas need to be burned out every few years to clear the dead &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/?p=36\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pincushion flowers in bloom&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47,"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/photography.southerngold.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}