{"id":99,"date":"2005-01-31T11:59:07","date_gmt":"2005-01-31T18:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/guapacha.com\/?p=99"},"modified":"2005-01-31T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2005-01-31T18:59:07","slug":"wake-up-and-smell-the-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/?p=99","title":{"rendered":"Wake up and Smell the Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had so much rain in the last couple of months that the desert floor is a sea of green right now, I&#8217;ve never seen it look anything but barren (excepting the ocotillos and cacti). This has also meant the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertusa.com\/wildflo\/ca.html\">desert wildflowers<\/a> are blooming like never before. This weekend, Teri and I went out to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anzaborrego.statepark.org\/\">Anza Borrego State Park<\/a> to have a look see and we were amazed at the colour and volume of the flowers that are out. Snapped a few pictures that you can see at my <a href=\"http:\/\/photos.guapacha.com\/Wildflowers2005\/index.html\">photo website<\/a> but here&#8217;s a pretty dune evening primrose to tempt ya to go see for yourself.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/photos.guapacha.com\/Wildflowers2005\/images\/DuneEveningPrimrose2.jpg\" alt=\"Dune Evening Primrose\" width=\"30%\" height=\"30%\" \/><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\nMake sure you head for Coyote Canyon and Henderson Canyon for the best sightings. And be sure to stop at the park headquarters for a wildflower identification map that can be had for the princely sum of just one United States dollar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve had so much rain in the last couple of months that the desert floor is a sea of green right now, I&#8217;ve never seen it look anything but barren (excepting the ocotillos and cacti). This has also meant the desert wildflowers are blooming like never before. This weekend, Teri and I went out to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,12],"tags":[45,107],"class_list":["post-99","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-imperial-valley","tag-california","tag-imperial-valley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=99"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=99"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=99"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guapacha.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=99"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}