{"id":1177,"date":"2011-10-20T16:58:14","date_gmt":"2011-10-20T23:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2011-10-20T17:22:08","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T00:22:08","slug":"being-different-is-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/archives\/1177","title":{"rendered":"Being different is beautiful"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Freak of nature or just a survivor?<\/h2>\n<p>I have a stand of cattails growing beside my garden that I have <a href=\"http:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/archives\/507\">blogged about in the past<\/a>. They are just getting ready to blow their seeds and yesterday I noticed one really irregular looking cattail. As I came in for a closer look I realized it was one cattail that had split at the base and had somehow managed to join back together at the top. I can&#8217;t really figure out how this happened but in the process it now has three seed heads! To me it looks kinda like a cinnamon twist and was so beautiful I just had to try and preserve it and photograph it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1179\" style=\"width: 502px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1179\" title=\"DSC_0011\" src=\"http:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0011.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"502\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0011.jpg 502w, https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0011-167x300.jpg 167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 502px) 100vw, 502px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Being different can be beautiful!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1178\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1178\" title=\"DSC_0001\" src=\"http:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0001.jpg\" alt=\"split cattail\" width=\"250\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0001.jpg 250w, https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/DSC_0001-83x300.jpg 83w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Split cattail makes three<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Freak of nature or just a survivor? I have a stand of cattails growing beside my garden that I have blogged about in the past. They are just getting ready to blow their seeds and yesterday I noticed one really irregular looking cattail. As I came in for a closer look I realized it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,37,17,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-galpage","category-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1177"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1177\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eloine.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}