{"id":495,"date":"2015-10-29T16:22:19","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T03:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/?p=495"},"modified":"2015-11-07T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T04:09:59","slug":"the-scent-of-orange-blossom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/the-scent-of-orange-blossom\/","title":{"rendered":"The scent of orange blossom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up at the farmlet last\u00a0weekend there was\u00a0a new scent in the air. Intrigued I followed my nose to the\u00a0source and found this:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_497\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/untitled-2015-10-24-93.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-497\" class=\"size-large wp-image-497\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/untitled-2015-10-24-93-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Orange blossom\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/untitled-2015-10-24-93.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/untitled-2015-10-24-93-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-497\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orange blossom<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s a\u00a0blossom on one of our 31 orange trees. Did I mention that we have a grove of 31 orange trees? Well, we do, and very pretty it\u00a0smells just now.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds good too. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/moving-date\/\" target=\"_blank\">Our bees<\/a> are still in Auckland, but someone around here has Italians, and the orange trees are buzzing. Hundreds of bees doing what needs to be done to make oranges happen\u00a0next winter.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_522\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bee-on-blossom-2015-10-24-95.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-522\" class=\"size-large wp-image-522\" src=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bee-on-blossom-2015-10-24-95-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Buzz\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bee-on-blossom-2015-10-24-95.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Bee-on-blossom-2015-10-24-95-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A pretty Italian bee, but she&#8217;s not one of ours.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bet orange nectar honey tastes amazing too. I can&#8217;t wait until blossom time next year when the girls from our bee hive\u00a0will be humming around\u00a0out there. Go the bees!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up at the farmlet last\u00a0weekend there was\u00a0a new scent in the air. Intrigued I followed my nose to the\u00a0source and found this: It&#8217;s a\u00a0blossom on one of our 31 orange trees. Did I mention that we have a grove of&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/the-scent-of-orange-blossom\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bees","category-orange-grove"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.charmedlife.co.nz\/cowboybootsandbrokenfingers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}