{"id":5355,"date":"2012-02-10T11:41:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T18:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/?p=5355"},"modified":"2012-02-10T11:52:25","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T18:52:25","slug":"snow-falling-on-yuccas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/snow-falling-on-yuccas\/","title":{"rendered":"Snow Falling on Yuccas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February\/March 2012<\/p>\n<h3>Ok, I\u2019ve got my botanical journal out&#8230; Blue spruce? \u2713 Oak tree? \u2713\u00a0Sea rose? \u2713 \u00a0Yucca <em>filamentosa<\/em>? Fireball hibiscus!?!<\/h3>\n<p>By David Svenson<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>My colleague, a native New Englander, stops at my desk. With a note of surprise, he exclaims, \u201cHey, that\u2019s Yucca <em>filamentosa<\/em>!\u201d He\u2019s pointing to the faraway image on my computer screen of the shooting, leathery green leaves of the Yucca. \u201cThere\u2019s one behind some rose bushes at Cumberland Avenue and Hanover Street.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/pdf\/plants.pdf\">download this story as a .pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hummingbird1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5375\" title=\"hummingbird\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/hummingbird1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February\/March 2012<br \/>\nOk, I\u2019ve got my botanical journal out&#8230; Blue spruce? \u2713 Oak tree? \u2713 Sea rose? \u2713  Yucca <em>filamentosa<\/em>? Fireball hibiscus!?!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5355"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5384,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5355\/revisions\/5384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portlandmonthly.com\/portmag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}