{"id":545,"date":"2013-01-21T12:40:15","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T02:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/545-day-387-the-real-mccoy.html"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:22:56","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T03:52:56","slug":"day-387-the-real-mccoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/545-day-387-the-real-mccoy.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 387, The Real McCoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:891 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/387-_MG_8914.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nAt first I thought this flower was the Scots Thistle, the national Scottish flower. I was incorrect, or was I?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nLooking more closely I discovered that this thistle is actually Spear Thistle, <em>Cirsium vulgare<\/em>. This is where the etymology and history of this plant becomes confusing. Most references I came across to the Scots Thistle name  the Cotton Thistle, <em>Onopordum acanthium<\/em> as the plant actually stated to be the Scottish emblem. On reading little further into the old stories of how this flower came to its status of Scottish nation emblem I discovered that the Cotton Thistle was only a recently introduced species and that Spear Thistle was the native plant of the region at that time and most likely species to have been the plant responsible.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nSo is this thistle the Real McCoy after all? Maybe.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, &#8216;Day 387, The Real McCoy&#8217; 1\/320s f\/11 ISO1250 200mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; At first I thought this flower was the Scots Thistle, the national Scottish flower. I was incorrect, or was I? Looking more closely I discovered that this thistle is actually Spear Thistle, Cirsium vulgare. This is where the etymology and history of this plant becomes confusing. Most references I came across &#8230; <a title=\"Day 387, The Real McCoy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/545-day-387-the-real-mccoy.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 387, The Real McCoy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}