{"id":36544,"date":"2017-08-27T08:50:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-27T13:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=36544"},"modified":"2017-08-27T16:05:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-27T21:05:14","slug":"texas-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/texas-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Hibiscus-coccineus-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Hibiscus-coccineus-3-640x571.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"571\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36542\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Hibiscus-coccineus-3-640x571.jpg 640w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Hibiscus-coccineus-3-768x685.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Hibiscus-coccineus-3-1024x913.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Hibiscus-coccineus-3-1200x1070.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I visited the botanical garden yesterday, where I found both the red and white forms of <i>Hibiscus coccineus<\/i>, the &#8220;Texas Star&#8221; hibiscus (though it&#8217;s not actually native to the Lone Star state) in bloom.<\/p>\n<p>In other Texas news, Ubu remains in Houston despite Harvey <a href=\"http:\/\/bridgebunnies.com\" target=\"_blank\">and has been writing<\/a> about the pleasures of life in the time of hurricanes.<span id='easy-footnote-1-36544' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/texas-star\/#easy-footnote-bottom-1-36544' title='or tropical storm, or depression'><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HIbiscus-coccineus-alba-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HIbiscus-coccineus-alba-1-538x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"538\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36543\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HIbiscus-coccineus-alba-1-538x640.jpg 538w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HIbiscus-coccineus-alba-1-768x914.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HIbiscus-coccineus-alba-1-860x1024.jpg 860w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HIbiscus-coccineus-alba-1-1200x1429.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/HIbiscus-coccineus-alba-1.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 538px) 85vw, 538px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Update: Here&#8217;s the front page of the <em>Wichita Eagle<\/em>&#8216;s web edition this morning. What&#8217;s missing? (Right-click and open in a new window to see at full size.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Beagle.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Beagle-129x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"129\" height=\"640\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-36549\" srcset=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Beagle-129x640.jpg 129w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Beagle-768x3812.jpg 768w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Beagle-206x1024.jpg 206w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Beagle-1200x5957.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Beagle.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 129px) 85vw, 129px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In the print edition, there was no mention of Harvey until page 15.<span id='easy-footnote-2-36544' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/texas-star\/#easy-footnote-bottom-2-36544' title='To be fair: the hurricane was on the front page yesterday, but the staff evidently lost interest after the storm hit the coast.'><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited the botanical garden yesterday, where I found both the red and white forms of Hibiscus coccineus, the &#8220;Texas Star&#8221; hibiscus (though it&#8217;s not actually native to the Lone Star state) in bloom. In other Texas news, Ubu remains in Houston despite Harvey and has been writing about the pleasures of life in the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/texas-star\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Texas Star&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photo-gallery","category-virtual-friends-and-acquaintances"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-9vq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36544"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36565,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36544\/revisions\/36565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}