
{"id":11323,"date":"2010-07-04T07:25:53","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T15:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=11323"},"modified":"2010-07-04T07:25:53","modified_gmt":"2010-07-04T15:25:53","slug":"thanks-for-flora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/07\/04\/thanks-for-flora\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks for Flora"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to let you know how much I enjoy Ken Moore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Flora column. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always well presented and informative, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of the reasons I look forward to reading The Citizen each week. His recent columns on pollinators made me pay special attention to a spectacle I have always enjoyed, that of watching busy pollinators.<\/p>\n<p>This past Sunday as I was birding along a nature trail, I approached a blooming Virginia creeper vine. I could hear buzzing and the plant looked fuzzy and shimmered with the movement of dozens of pollinators, from bumble bees to tiny flies. It was a mesmerizing sight and a delight to watch.<br \/>\nThanks to Ken for his interesting columns, and I happily anticipate many more to come.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lucretia O. Kinney<br \/>\nChapel Hill<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wanted to let you know how much I enjoy Ken Moore\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Flora column. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s always well presented and informative, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one of the reasons I look forward to reading The Citizen each week. His recent columns on pollinators made me pay special attention to a spectacle I have always enjoyed, that of watching&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11323"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11325,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11323\/revisions\/11325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}