{"id":20948,"date":"2017-05-17T14:46:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:46:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=20948"},"modified":"2017-05-17T14:46:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-17T14:46:38","slug":"peony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=20948","title":{"rendered":"Peony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our peony is one of the shrubs that was already here when we moved in ten years ago. I have never photographed it though as it takes ages for the flower buds to open and then just as they reach their peak it goes over. It&#8217;s a shame that the flowers, although lovely, are so short lived.<\/p>\n<p>This year I thought that I would try to catch it.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20970\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=20970\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20970\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20970\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20970\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the_peony_is_in_bud.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the_peony_is_in_bud.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the_peony_is_in_bud-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the_peony_is_in_bud-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20970\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The peony is in bud<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20971\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=20971\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20971\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20971\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20971\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Its_about_to_burst_open.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Its_about_to_burst_open.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Its_about_to_burst_open-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Its_about_to_burst_open-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20971\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">It&#8217;s about to burst open<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_20972\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=20972\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-20972\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20972\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20972\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the_peony_is_fully_open.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the_peony_is_fully_open.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the_peony_is_fully_open-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/the_peony_is_fully_open-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-20972\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The peony is fully open<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It will be like this for a few days and then the flowers will drop. It&#8217;s lovely while it lasts though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our peony is one of the shrubs that was already here when we moved in ten years ago. I have never photographed it though as it takes ages for the flower buds to open and then just as they reach &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=20948\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20948"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20948"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20975,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20948\/revisions\/20975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}