{"id":2726,"date":"2018-05-14T07:18:10","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T11:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/answerwall.domain.bc.edu\/?p=2726"},"modified":"2018-05-14T16:23:20","modified_gmt":"2018-05-14T20:23:20","slug":"why-are-all-the-flowers-on-newton-wilting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/14\/why-are-all-the-flowers-on-newton-wilting\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are all the flowers on Newton wilting? :("},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2703\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2703\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05142018-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2703\" src=\"http:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05142018-9-300x292.jpg\" alt=\"Why are all the flowers on Newton wilting? :(\" width=\"300\" height=\"292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05142018-9-300x292.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/AW05142018-9.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Why are all the flowers on Newton wilting? \ud83d\ude41<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hm&#8230;. Did you mean &#8220;in&#8221; Newton? My Newton area colleagues haven&#8217;t noticed a flower-wilting phenomenon there.\u00a0 In most years, spring flowers follow a succession &#8211; early bulbs (crocus &amp; snowdrops), then the yellow explosions of forsythia, then later bulbs (daffodils and other narcissus), then fruit trees like apples and cherries. This year, the late spring meant everything bloomed all at once. It was a feast for the eyes (and a trial for some noses) and all subsided all at once. If there&#8217;s a problem specific to Newton Street in Brighton, IDK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hm&#8230;. Did you mean &#8220;in&#8221; Newton? My Newton area colleagues haven&#8217;t noticed a flower-wilting phenomenon there.\u00a0 In most years, spring flowers follow a succession &#8211; early bulbs (crocus &amp; snowdrops), then the yellow explosions of forsythia, then later bulbs (daffodils and other narcissus), then fruit trees like apples and cherries. This year, the late spring &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2018\/05\/14\/why-are-all-the-flowers-on-newton-wilting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why are all the flowers on Newton wilting? :(&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2726"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2726\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}