{"id":206,"date":"2005-08-24T10:25:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-24T17:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2005\/08\/24\/green-grass-and-horses\/"},"modified":"2006-05-02T23:25:02","modified_gmt":"2006-05-03T06:25:02","slug":"green-grass-and-horses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/08\/24\/green-grass-and-horses\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Grass and Horses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The monsoon rains have caused the grass to turn green in many areas around Tucson, especially in the low-lying mesquite bosques (dense riparian woodlands of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blueplanetbiomes.org\/velvet_mesquite.htm\">Velvet Mesquite trees<\/a>) along the Tanque Verde Wash. The mesquite bosque can be seen in the distance behind this horse happily grazing in a green pasture.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/August\/white-horse-grazing.jpg\" alt=\"White horse grazing on green grass\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As soon as the horses in this pasture saw me, they gave up on the fresh, green grass and came over to me hoping for a treat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/August\/white-horse.jpg\" alt=\"White horse\" width=\"400\" height=\"513\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have anything for them, but they were quite interested in my camera, and they craned their necks over the fence trying to get a closer view of it. One of the horses sniffed the camera and then snorted suspiciously at it (luckily I had closed my lens cap so my lens wasn&#8217;t sprayed), while another curious horse reached out with wriggling lips trying to put the camera in her mouth (which I didn&#8217;t allow of course). When I got back into the car, the horses returned to contentedly grazing on the green grass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The monsoon rains have caused the grass to turn green in many areas around Tucson, especially in the low-lying mesquite bosques (dense riparian woodlands of Velvet Mesquite trees) along the Tanque Verde Wash. The mesquite bosque can be seen in the distance behind this horse happily grazing in a green pasture. As soon as the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/08\/24\/green-grass-and-horses\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets-domesticated-animals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}