{"id":1404,"date":"2010-10-01T04:17:48","date_gmt":"2010-10-01T11:17:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2013-05-15T18:22:49","modified_gmt":"2013-05-16T01:22:49","slug":"quaking-aspen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/quaking-aspen\/","title":{"rendered":"Quaking Aspen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20101001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"quaking aspen tree blur\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/20101001-188x105.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"105\" \/><\/a>I did a little research as to why the leaves on these beautiful trees twist and turn (quake) like they do and found the following on Wikipedia: &#8220;It is thought to help protect the trees from severe winds, perhaps by helping dissipate energy more uniformly throughout the canopy&#8221;. That was only one of several very interesting explanations. Read the others here: <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aspen\" target=\"_blank\">Quaking Aspen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As most know, I love shaking my camera at things so here&#8217;s a different take on one of the most popular ways of shooting Aspens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I did a little research as to why the leaves on these beautiful trees twist and turn (quake) like they do and found the following on Wikipedia: &#8220;It is thought to help protect the trees from severe winds, perhaps by helping dissipate energy more uniformly throughout the canopy&#8221;. That was only one of several very [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[310,7,6,33,104],"tags":[105,108,111,322,323],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6063,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/6063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}