{"id":208,"date":"2008-07-06T23:23:25","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T05:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2008-07-12T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2008-07-12T22:09:49","slug":"mimosa-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/mimosa-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"Mimosa Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"width: 194px; float: left;\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"background: transparent url(http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/f\/img\/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/chappell.famly\/MimosaSummer2008\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin:1px 0 0 4px;\" src=\"http:\/\/lh6.ggpht.com\/chappell.famly\/SHEQiAQt-TE\/AAAAAAAABWI\/5lyq--vXJyk\/s160-c\/MimosaSummer2008.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"160\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align:center;font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px\"><a style=\"color:#4D4D4D;font-weight:bold;text-decoration:none;\" href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/chappell.famly\/MimosaSummer2008\">Mimosa Summer 2008<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>The neighbor&#8217;s <a title=\"Mimosa - Silk Tree\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/plants\/ALIEN\/fact\/alju1.htm\" target=\"_blank\">mimosa<\/a> trees have grown like crazy thanks to all the rain plus some good ol&#8217; Kansas sunshine in between. They smell great. We can smell them in bed at night, if it&#8217;s a night it&#8217;s tolerable to have the windows open. Took some pictures which you can peruse if you want by clicking that photo there. These were taken <em>after<\/em> we helped them cut off a whole lot of branches that were hanging over the fence, practically touching ground from being so laden with blooms. I also ran video of the wind blowing the trees Sunday morning a week back. Mostly the mimosas, but some cottonwood, too. At the moment, it&#8217;s too big of a video. Tried uploading to Google Videos and somehow 800MBs turned into two seconds of nothing, despite taking four hours to upload. Will think of something else. It&#8217;s a very pleasant video to watch and listen to; our version of the seashore, sort of. You can watch <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-2743274982925597402&amp;hl=en\">a short segment here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mimosa Summer 2008 The neighbor&#8217;s mimosa trees have grown like crazy thanks to all the rain plus some good ol&#8217; Kansas sunshine in between. They smell great. We can smell them in bed at night, if it&#8217;s a night it&#8217;s tolerable to have the windows open. Took some pictures which you can peruse if you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","comment-closed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chappells.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}