{"id":328,"date":"2011-03-02T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-02T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/wiregrass.html"},"modified":"2011-03-02T08:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T13:00:00","slug":"wiregrass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/wiregrass.html","title":{"rendered":"Wiregrass"},"content":{"rendered":"The plant that names our region: wiregrass, Aristida stricta:\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/sets\/72157626012969567\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5216\/5472090579_5862d0b22a.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nQuail and gopher tortoises eat it.\nMany birds, reptiles, and small animals use it for covers.\nFor centuries settlers grazed cattle on it.\nBurn it in May for it to make seed in October.\nIt thrives in fire forests with longleaf pine.\n<p>\nMap of Wiregrass Georgia:\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huxford.com\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/www.huxford.com\/images\/Maps\/Wiregrass_Georgia_Map.gif\"><\/a>\n<p>\nThe region also extends into south Alabama and north Florida.\nThere&#8217;s so little native wiregrass left that the only place t\nhat seems to have a map of the region is the\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.huxford.com\/\">\nHuxford Genealogical Society<\/a> in Homerville,\nright in the center of Wiregrass Georgia.\n<p>\nWiregrass with small dogs for scale:\n<p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/98706376@N00\/5472682268\/in\/set-72157626012969567\/\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=0 src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5131\/5472682268_aa8c577ddf.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nThis wiregrass is native; it&#8217;s been growing here for 15,000 y\nears since the last Ice Age.\n<p>\nPictures by John S. Quarterman, Lowndes County, Georgia, 19 Feb 2011.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The plant that names our region: wiregrass, Aristida stricta: Quail and gopher tortoises eat it. Many birds, reptiles, and small animals use it for covers. For centuries settlers grazed cattle on it. Burn it in May for it to make seed in October. It thrives in fire forests with longleaf pine. Map of Wiregrass Georgia: [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10,70,60,567],"tags":[961,555],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-longleaf","category-plants","category-wiregrass-2","tag-aristida-stricta","tag-wiregrass"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-5i","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","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=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}