{"id":1403,"date":"2011-04-12T12:59:49","date_gmt":"2011-04-12T19:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.russbishop.com\/blog\/?p=1403"},"modified":"2015-11-06T10:41:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T18:41:05","slug":"dangerous-beauty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/dangerous-beauty\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Beauty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/russbishop.photoshelter.com\/img-show\/I0000vSwNsypGenE\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Photo By: Russ Bishop\/Russ Bishop Photography\" src=\"http:\/\/www.photoshelter.com\/img-get\/I0000vSwNsypGenE\/s\/600\/399\/920592hx.jpg\" alt=\"Detail of Barrel Cactus in bloom on Yaqui Pass, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California (Russ Bishop\/Russ Bishop Photography)\" width=\"600\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Barrel Cactus in bloom, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spring in the desert is a land of contrasts. Normally barren fields and rocky hillsides, washed clean from winter rains, take on a new dimension as wildflowers begin to dot the landscape and succulents explode in a kaleidoscope of color. Here a spiny barrel cactus displays its delicate flowers on Yaqui Pass in Anza-Borrego State Park. \u00a0Though the vibrant show attracts wildlife and photographers alike,\u00a0the sharp needle-like spines are a constant reminder to look but don&#8217;t touch.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Russ Bishop\/All Rights Reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barrel Cactus in bloom, Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California Spring in the desert is a land of contrasts. Normally barren fields and rocky hillsides, washed clean from winter rains, take on a new dimension as wildflowers begin to dot the landscape and succulents explode in a kaleidoscope of color. Here a spiny barrel cactus displays &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/dangerous-beauty\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Dangerous Beauty&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,173,8],"tags":[86,87,15,56,249,425,569,25,85],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-landscape-photography","category-nature-photography","tag-anza-borrego","tag-cactus","tag-california","tag-desert","tag-macro","tag-photography","tag-russ-bishop","tag-spring","tag-wildflowers"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/russbishop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}