{"id":1734,"date":"2015-08-08T06:16:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-08T07:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1734"},"modified":"2015-08-08T06:16:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-08T07:16:44","slug":"feeding-off-the-thistle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1734","title":{"rendered":"Feeding off the thistle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"shariff\" data-title=\"Feeding off the thistle\" data-info-url=\"\" data-backend-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/plugins\/shariff-sharing\/backend\/index.php\" data-temp=\"\/tmp\" data-ttl=\"60\" data-service=\"gft\" data-services='[\"googleplus\",\"facebook\",\"twitter\",\"info\"]' data-image=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCF1658.jpg\" data-url=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/?p=1734\" data-lang=\"en\" data-theme=\"color\" data-orientation=\"horizontal\"><\/div><p>I have been looking at thistles recently.\u00a0 There seem to be more about in the fields than I remember from previous years.\u00a0\u00a0 The bright tuft of purple at the top make them an ideal subject for a photograph.\u00a0\u00a0 I had an abortive attempt at a thistle picture a week or so ago with thistles providing the foreground to a landscape of the hills of Angus in\u00a0early evening\u00a0sunshine after a day of rain&#8230;&#8230;but my thistle were out of focus.<\/p>\n<p>The main difficulty with thistle is the spikes!\u00a0\u00a0 it is not so easy to push one flower out of the way to get the right composition.\u00a0 An evening walk by the burn gave me easy access to this flower and when I looked at the result I saw I had captured some tiny beetles too, feeding off the thistle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCF1658.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1733\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCF1658.jpg\" alt=\"DSCF1658\" width=\"667\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCF1658.jpg 667w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCF1658-200x300.jpg 200w, http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/DSCF1658-624x936.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been looking at thistles recently.\u00a0 There seem to be more about in the fields than I remember from previous years.\u00a0\u00a0 The bright tuft of purple at the top make them an ideal subject for a photograph.\u00a0\u00a0 I had an abortive attempt at a thistle picture a week or so ago with thistles providing&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crudencountry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1735,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions\/1735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.couttsweb.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}