{"id":7195,"date":"2016-02-23T20:53:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-24T03:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7195"},"modified":"2016-02-24T20:58:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T03:58:04","slug":"death-valley-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/23\/death-valley-alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Valley Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/23\/science\/death-valley-is-experiencing-a-colorful-superbloom.html?register=facebook\" target=\"_blank\">from The New York\u00a0Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Death Valley Is Experiencing a Colorful \u2018Superbloom\u2019<\/h1>\n<p>By <span class=\"simple-byline-author simple-byline \" data-byline-name=\"Tatiana Schlossberg\">TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG<\/span><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"media-viewer-candidate\" src=\"http:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2016\/02\/23\/science\/23tri-deathvalleyyellow\/23tri-deathvalleyyellow-master1050.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" \/><em>Credit:\u00a0National Park Service<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Death Valley, one of the hottest places on Earth, is currently a riot of color: More than 20 different kinds of desert wildflowers are in bloom there after\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/science\/la-me-adv-death-valley-floods-20151110-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">record-breaking rains last October<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the best bloom there since 2005, according to Abby Wines, a spokeswoman for Death Valley National Park, and \u201cit just keeps getting better and better.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The flowers started poking up in November, but the particularly colorful display emerged late last month in the park, which is mainly in California but stretches across the Nevada border. On Twitter and Instagram, park visitors have taken to calling it a \u201csuperbloom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The park gets about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/deva\/learn\/nature\/loader.cfm?csModule=security\/getfile&amp;pageid=546687\" target=\"_blank\">two inches of rain annually<\/a>, so it always sees some wildflowers, though not as many or as varied. But it doesn\u2019t take much more rain than that to completely dye the desert, Ms. Wines said, making last fall\u2019s unusually heavy rains particularly effective.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/02\/23\/science\/death-valley-is-experiencing-a-colorful-superbloom.html?register=facebook\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York\u00a0Times Death Valley Is Experiencing a Colorful \u2018Superbloom\u2019 By TATIANA SCHLOSSBERG Credit:\u00a0National Park Service Death Valley, one of the hottest places on Earth, is currently a riot of color: More than 20 different kinds of desert wildflowers are in bloom there after\u00a0record-breaking rains last October. It\u2019s the best bloom there since 2005, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}