{"id":307,"date":"2011-09-30T06:22:33","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T10:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/?p=307"},"modified":"2011-09-30T13:31:44","modified_gmt":"2011-09-30T17:31:44","slug":"old-man-cactus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/old-man-cactus\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Man Cactus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I spent a few days in Phoenix for work. I had a few hours to kill one afternoon, so I paid a visit to the Desert Botanical Garden. Everyone said &#8220;oh, it&#8217;s hot there, but it&#8217;s dry heat, so it&#8217;s not so bad.&#8221; Not true. 110 degrees is\u00c2\u00a0<em>hot<\/em>, regardless of humidity levels. I only stayed for an hour or two at the gardens, but saw a huge variety of cacti and some beautiful big skies.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"Old Man Cactus\" src=\"\/photos\/var\/resizes\/phoenix-gardens\/IMG_6752.JPG?m=1316543046\" alt=\"Old Man Cactus\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This guy was my favorite &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cephalocereus_senilis\">Old Man Cactus<\/a>, all covered in soft white fuzz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, I spent a few days in Phoenix for work. I had a few hours to kill one afternoon, so I paid a visit to the Desert Botanical Garden. Everyone said &#8220;oh, it&#8217;s hot there, but it&#8217;s dry heat, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/old-man-cactus\/\">Continue reading <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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.emilywinck.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->