{"id":315,"date":"2011-03-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/longleaf-and-wiregrass.html"},"modified":"2011-03-11T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-11T13:00:00","slug":"longleaf-and-wiregrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/longleaf-and-wiregrass.html","title":{"rendered":"longleaf and wiregrass"},"content":{"rendered":"The two plants that most characterize Georgia&#8217;s southern longleaf forests:\nPinus palustris and Aristida stricta.\nThese two are natives; they and their ancestors have lived on this spot\nsince the last ice age.\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/sets\/72157626012871345\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5132\/5472685228_25bee13338.jpg\n\"><\/a>\n<p>\nAbout\n<a href=\"\/blog\/category\/longleaf\">\nLongleaf<\/a> (Pinus palustris),\n<a href=\"\/blog\/category\/wiregrass\">\nwiregrass<\/a> (Aristida stricta),\nand\n<a href=\"\/blog\/category\/gopher-tortoise\">\ngopher tortoise<\/a> (Gopherus polyphemus)\nby\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.longleafalliance.org\/\">\nthe Longleaf Alliance:<\/a>\n<blockquote>\nWe believe that longleaf in any form is better than a cotton field;\nthat longleaf and native ground cover (like wiregrass) is better than\nlongleaf alone; that longleaf, wiregrass, and gopher tortoises are better\nthan longleaf and wiregrass alone.\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\nPicture of\nPinus palustris and Aristida stricta\nby John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 19 February 2011.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The two plants that most characterize Georgia&#8217;s southern longleaf forests: Pinus palustris and Aristida stricta. These two are natives; they and their ancestors have lived on this spot since the last ice age. About Longleaf (Pinus palustris), wiregrass (Aristida stricta), and gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus) by the Longleaf Alliance: We believe that longleaf in any [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[70,567],"tags":[962,961,3,2827,770,5,2787,2,502,555],"class_list":["post-315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-longleaf","category-wiregrass-2","tag-19-february-2011","tag-aristida-stricta","tag-georgia","tag-gopher-tortoise","tag-gopherus-polyphemus","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-longleaf","tag-lowndes-county","tag-pinus-palustris","tag-wiregrass"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-55","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}