{"id":845,"date":"2014-10-30T12:41:13","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=845"},"modified":"2016-09-07T16:03:48","modified_gmt":"2016-09-07T13:03:48","slug":"cartoon-cacti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/cartoon-cacti\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon Cacti!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cacti in general are not an exotic plant to me, certainly not in the way palm trees still are. I mean, I can hike the hills around my property and see some. But the iconic, cartoony saguaro cactus? Now, that&#8217;s something as exotic to me as the palm tree!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMGP9463.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-846 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMGP9463-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMGP9463\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMGP9463-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/IMGP9463.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the way into Phoenix yesterday, I saw &#8216;forests&#8217; of them dotting the hillsides. I couldn&#8217;t believe how <em>big<\/em> they are. It wasn&#8217;t until I reached this morning&#8217;s destination that I finally had an opportunity to properly observe and photograph this amazing plant. The one in this picture most closely matches my mental image of the cactus, but I saw some that had no spears (&#8216;branches&#8217;) at all and others that had dozens, if not hundreds, of them and were absolutely massive, bigger than a two-story house!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cacti in general are not an exotic plant to me, certainly not in the way palm trees still are. I mean, I can hike the hills around my property and see some. But the iconic, cartoony saguaro cactus? Now, that&#8217;s something as exotic to me as the palm tree! On the way into Phoenix yesterday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,635,840,3,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-north-america","category-phoenix","category-travel","category-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}