{"id":32876,"date":"2016-07-31T06:30:21","date_gmt":"2016-07-30T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/?p=32876"},"modified":"2016-07-30T21:02:50","modified_gmt":"2016-07-30T09:02:50","slug":"meetings-with-marvelous-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/07\/31\/meetings-with-marvelous-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Meetings with Marvelous Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This tree in particular is a very old friend, from &#8220;Helen, the Early Years&#8221; when I resided in Auckland and often walked or ran in that city&#8217;s wonderful Cornwall Park.<\/p>\n<p>Moreton Bay Figs hail from Australia, but they&#8217;ve acclimatized readily to subtropical Auckland. I love their shape and twisted roots.<\/p>\n<p>This particular tree is located near the Greenlane entrance to the park, close by the <a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/07\/17\/meeting-a-remarkable-tree\/\" target=\"_blank\">Algerian oak<\/a> I featured a week or so ago. I like to stop by and say hello whenever I&#8217;m in Auckland, and as you can see from the photo, I&#8217;m not the only one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/2016\/07\/31\/meetings-with-marvelous-trees\/moreton-bay-fig\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-32877\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-32877\" src=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Moreton-Bay-Fig.jpg\" alt=\"Moreton Bay Fig\" width=\"723\" height=\"448\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Moreton-Bay-Fig.jpg 996w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Moreton-Bay-Fig-150x93.jpg 150w, https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Moreton-Bay-Fig-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 723px) 100vw, 723px\" \/><\/a>Probably, if I was a purist, I wouldn&#8217;t like it, Moreton Bay figs being an Aussie import and all &#8212; but in fact, (to quote Dr Who) I think it&#8217;s marvelous. \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This tree in particular is a very old friend, from &#8220;Helen, the Early Years&#8221; when I resided in Auckland and often walked or ran in that city&#8217;s wonderful Cornwall Park. Moreton Bay Figs hail from Australia, but they&#8217;ve acclimatized readily to subtropical Auckland. I love their shape and twisted roots. This particular tree is located [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32876"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32882,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32876\/revisions\/32882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helenlowe.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}