{"id":316,"date":"2005-11-26T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-26T18:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2005\/11\/26\/a-couple-of-unexpected-things\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T13:45:22","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T20:45:22","slug":"a-couple-of-unexpected-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/11\/26\/a-couple-of-unexpected-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Droplet of Mesquite Sap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will occasionally see things that are a bit unusual when I&#8217;m out hunting for wildflowers, such as this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/989\/dicliptera-resupinata-arizona-foldwing\/\">Arizona Foldwing (Dicliptera resupinata)<\/a> flower caught in a long, sticky droplet of <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/04\/29\/mesquite-sap\/\">mesquite sap<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/November\/mesquite-sap-droplet.jpg\" alt=\"Arizona Foldwing (Dicliptera resupinata) flower caught in a droplet of mesquite sap\" width=\"400\" height=\"547\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The string of sap probably started out as a spider web dangling from a mesquite branch, and the web was gradually coated with sap as successive drops of black mesquite sap trickled down its length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will occasionally see things that are a bit unusual when I&#8217;m out hunting for wildflowers, such as this Arizona Foldwing (Dicliptera resupinata) flower caught in a long, sticky droplet of mesquite sap. The string of sap probably started out as a spider web dangling from a mesquite branch, and the web was gradually coated&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/11\/26\/a-couple-of-unexpected-things\/\" 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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-wild-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316","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=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}