{"id":17207,"date":"2009-06-24T21:56:22","date_gmt":"2009-06-25T01:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17207"},"modified":"2014-12-28T22:27:08","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T03:27:08","slug":"the-delphiniums-as-high-as-an-edelmans-eyehigher-even","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/06\/24\/the-delphiniums-as-high-as-an-edelmans-eyehigher-even\/","title":{"rendered":"The delphinium&#8217;s as high as an Edelman&#8217;s eye&#8212;higher even!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The delphinium outside of our dining-room window has been putting on a major display this year, with a single plant yielding seven purplish blue stalks as tall as or taller than I am. It&#8217;s the most magnificent showing we&#8217;ve ever had.<\/p>\n<p>During our meals, the hummingbirds sometimes ignore the feeder to sup from these flowers, often sitting on the string you can see that we used to keep the stalks upright.<\/p>\n<p>To make sure you understand the size of these suckers, I am 6&#8217;4&#8243;, and I am standing, not sitting, in this picture. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ScottEdelmanDelphinium.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ScottEdelmanDelphinium-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"ScottEdelmanDelphinium\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-17208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ScottEdelmanDelphinium-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ScottEdelmanDelphinium.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The delphinium outside of our dining-room window has been putting on a major display this year, with a single plant yielding seven purplish blue stalks as tall as or taller than I am. It&#8217;s the most magnificent showing we&#8217;ve ever had. During our meals, the hummingbirds sometimes ignore the feeder to sup from these flowers, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17209,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17207\/revisions\/17209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}