{"id":8191,"date":"2017-02-02T12:47:58","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8191"},"modified":"2017-02-11T12:51:51","modified_gmt":"2017-02-11T19:51:51","slug":"poppies-poppies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/02\/poppies-poppies\/","title":{"rendered":"Poppies! Poppies!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Antelope-Valley-California-Poppy-Reserve-bloom-10894503.php\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from The San Francisco Chronicle<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1>Winter rains could lead to spectacular floral display at California poppy reserve<\/h1>\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/author\/amy-graff\/\" target=\"_blank\">Amy Graff<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ww3.hdnux.com\/photos\/11\/34\/30\/2475574\/5\/1024x1024.jpg\" width=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The winter rains could trigger a poppy explosion in the California desert this spring.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.parks.ca.gov\/?page_id=627\" target=\"_blank\">Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve<\/a>\u00a0outside Lancaster has received the minimum amount of rain, 7 inches, to make a vibrant bloom possible. The weather over the next couple weeks will determine the future of the sprouts.<\/p>\n<p>A late freeze, a heat wave or a three-week stretch without rain could wipe out the bloom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need the rains to continue on a regular basis to maintain the bloom,&#8221; California State Park Interpreter Jean Rhyne\u00a0says. &#8220;That&#8217;s really what they need.\u00a0With the past years of drought, there isn&#8217;t a lot of moisture built up in the soil.\u00a0If we&#8217;d had several years of good rain and enough moisture content in the soil, the plants would be growing early enough to carry them through a freeze or heat wave. The roots needs to be deep enough for them to tolerate extreme conditions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/news\/article\/Antelope-Valley-California-Poppy-Reserve-bloom-10894503.php\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at SFGate<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The San Francisco Chronicle Winter rains could lead to spectacular floral display at California poppy reserve By\u00a0Amy Graff The winter rains could trigger a poppy explosion in the California desert this spring. The\u00a0Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve\u00a0outside Lancaster has received the minimum amount of rain, 7 inches, to make a vibrant bloom possible. The [&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-8191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191","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=8191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}