{"id":676,"date":"2013-05-29T00:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-28T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/676-day-515-zebra-plant.html"},"modified":"2013-06-01T00:13:18","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T13:43:18","slug":"day-515-zebra-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/676-day-515-zebra-plant.html","title":{"rendered":"Day 515, Zebra Plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<!-- s9ymdb:401 -->&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot;<!-- s9ymdb:1049 --><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"serendipity_image_center\" width=\"703\" height=\"1024\" src=\"\/serendipity\/uploads\/land_photos\/515-_MG_4780.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe beautiful zebra plant would have you believe it boasts beautiful bright yellow flowers which last all through the winter. You&#8217;d be mistaken.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nNow a common indoor plant, <em>Aphelandra squarrosa<\/em> is native of Brazil. It gets its common name from its striking striped foliage which gives no clues at all to those wonderful non-flowers.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe non-flowers are actually called &#8216;bracts&#8217; and are a special king of leaf associated with the flowers. The flowers themselves appear only briefly and have since gone.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<em>Photo: Robert Rath, \u2018Day 515, Zebra Plant&#8217; 1\/1250s f\/2.8 ISO640 100mm<\/em><br \/>\n<br \/>\n<br \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;a href=&quot;\/serendipity\/&quot; title=&quot;Robert&#039;s Ramblings&quot; The beautiful zebra plant would have you believe it boasts beautiful bright yellow flowers which last all through the winter. You&#8217;d be mistaken. Now a common indoor plant, Aphelandra squarrosa is native of Brazil. It gets its common name from its striking striped foliage which gives no clues at all to &#8230; <a title=\"Day 515, Zebra Plant\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/archives\/676-day-515-zebra-plant.html\" aria-label=\"Read more about Day 515, Zebra Plant\">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-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","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=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertrath.com\/serendipity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}