{"id":9591,"date":"2014-07-09T14:18:10","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T19:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=9591"},"modified":"2014-07-09T14:18:37","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T19:18:37","slug":"photo-of-the-day-lupins-at-the-seashore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/photo-of-the-day-lupins-at-the-seashore\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo of the day: Lupins at the seashore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"drop_cap\">O<\/span>ne of the unexpected beauties of our trip to Prince Edward Island were the beautiful pink, purple, yellow and cream lupins growing wild almost everywhere we went.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/postcardsfromthemothership\/14401474810\" title=\"Lupins at Basin Head\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2921\/14401474810_15c0159022_z.jpg\" class=\"frame aligncenter\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" alt=\"Lupines at Basin Head PEI\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>These ones were growing between the dunes at Basin Head provincial park, but they were in just about every vista we saw. I don&#8217;t remember ever seeing them around Ottawa &#8211; surely we&#8217;re in a similar temperate zone, can I grow them here? Honestly, before we went to PEI, everything I knew about lupins I learned from Monty Python!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qLkhx0eqK5w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PS WordPress really wants me to spell &#8220;lupin&#8221; as &#8220;lupine&#8221; &#8211; but they&#8217;re not really wolf-like, are they?  Hmm, today&#8217;s photo seems to raise more questions than it answers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the unexpected beauties of our trip to Prince Edward Island were the beautiful pink, purple, yellow and cream lupins growing wild almost everywhere we went. These ones were growing between the dunes at Basin Head provincial park, but they were in just about every vista we saw. I don&#8217;t remember ever seeing them &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2014\/07\/09\/photo-of-the-day-lupins-at-the-seashore\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Photo of the day: Lupins at the seashore&#8221;<\/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":[105,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ottawa-to-pei-2014","category-project-365"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9593,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9591\/revisions\/9593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}