{"id":132,"date":"2010-04-23T01:50:26","date_gmt":"2010-04-23T01:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/?p=132"},"modified":"2010-04-23T03:37:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-23T03:37:33","slug":"new-orleans-things-youll-find-in-the-oaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/23\/new-orleans-things-youll-find-in-the-oaks\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans: Things You’ll Find in the Oaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oak trees in New Orleans aren’t like our Los Angeles trees. Some of the surprising things you’ll find in New Orleans oaks:<\/p>\n

\"Spanish<\/a>

Spanish Moss<\/p><\/div>\n

Spanish Moss trivia: it was used to stuff the cushions of both Model T Fords and Volkswagen Beetles.<\/p>\n

\"Caterpillars\"<\/a>

Buck Moth Caterpillars<\/p><\/div>\n

These little guys<\/a> are covered with spines, which contain a skin irritant. They drop out of the oaks on unsuspecting tourists. Fortunately, we are nothing if not suspecting, so they avoided us (and we them).<\/p>\n

\"Beads\"<\/a>

Mardi Gras Beads!<\/p><\/div>\n

Of course, the beads are found in places other than oak trees:<\/p>\n

\"More<\/a>

Beads in the Trolley Car Wires<\/p><\/div>\n

\"More<\/a>

Beads in a Crape Myrtle<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oak trees in New Orleans aren’t like our Los Angeles trees. Some of the surprising things you’ll find in New Orleans oaks: Spanish Moss trivia: it was used to stuff the cushions of both Model T Fords and Volkswagen Beetles. These little guys are covered with spines, which contain a skin irritant. They drop out […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-places","category-sites","category-travelogue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172,"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132\/revisions\/172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}