{"id":1835,"date":"2010-11-16T10:13:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-16T17:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=1835"},"modified":"2013-05-15T14:57:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T21:57:25","slug":"volunteer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/volunteer\/","title":{"rendered":"Volunteer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101116.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"unidentified volunteer plant\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/20101116-188x125.jpg\" width=\"188\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a>A plant coming up in your yard (or anywhere) is often called a <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Volunteer_plant\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;volunteer&#8221;<\/a><\/strong>. This one is a beauty (to me anyway) with tiny 1\/4 inch translucent cream colored flowers that appear along the stems at every leaf location. I put down topsoil during my landscaping project and hoped I would have some interesting plants pop up so I was happy to see it. I have no idea what it is but as soon as I find out, I will edit this post.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE:<\/strong> Unfortunately, it&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/2291\/salsola-tragus-prickly-russian-thistle\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russian Thistle<\/a><\/strong>. See comment below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plant coming up in your yard (or anywhere) is often called a &#8220;volunteer&#8221;. This one is a beauty (to me anyway) with tiny 1\/4 inch translucent cream colored flowers that appear along the stems at every leaf location. I put down topsoil during my landscaping project and hoped I would have some interesting plants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,7,53],"tags":[403,405,404,201],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835"}],"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=1835"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1842,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1835\/revisions\/1842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}