{"id":6462,"date":"2012-06-15T10:22:52","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T15:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=6462"},"modified":"2012-06-15T10:58:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T15:58:12","slug":"fridays-flower-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=6462","title":{"rendered":"Friday&#8217;s flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">While I&#8217;m not often a fan of &#8220;catalog&#8221; photographs of flowers. Occasionally a specimen demands to simply be presented for its own perfect beauty. Such was the case with this peonie. Usually my peonies appear either bloomed out or barely opened. Rarely do I see the moment when the flowers are simply perfect. As I walked to the mail box this one simply called out, &#8220;\u2026dude &#8211; look at me &#8211; I&#8217;m perfect &#8211; now &#8211; and only for this instant &#8211; in this specific light\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">(click photograph for larger view)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/L1150216.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6463\" title=\"L1150216\" src=\"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/L1150216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/L1150216.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/L1150216-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/L1150216-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/L1150216-1024x1024.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Leica R8\/DMR, 100 mm Apo Macro Elmarit (I think)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I&#8217;m not often a fan of &#8220;catalog&#8221; photographs of flowers. Occasionally a specimen demands to simply be presented for its own perfect beauty. Such was the case with this peonie. Usually my peonies appear either bloomed out or barely opened. Rarely do I see the moment when the flowers are simply perfect. As I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,51,55,33,17,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-thoughts","category-documentary","category-flora","category-natural-world","category-photography","category-up-close","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6462"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6467,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462\/revisions\/6467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}