{"id":5668,"date":"2015-03-01T12:44:26","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T12:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/?p=5668"},"modified":"2015-03-01T12:44:26","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T12:44:26","slug":"daffodils-in-carlisle-on-st-davids-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/2015\/03\/daffodils-in-carlisle-on-st-davids-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Daffodils in Carlisle on St David&#8217;s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5669\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5669\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/03\/daffodils_carlisle_march2015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5669\" src=\"https:\/\/ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/03\/daffodils_carlisle_march2015-203x152.jpg\" alt=\"First daffodil flowers of 2015\" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First daffodil flowers of 2015<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Out and about in recent days, I have spotted my first daffodil flowers of 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Today is the perfect day, it being\u00a0St David&#8217;s day, March 1st to share it on my blog.<\/p>\n<p>St David is the patron saint of Wales.<\/p>\n<p>Many humans mark the day by wearing one of the two national emblems of Wales, either a daffodil or a leek. \u00a0They often\u00a0display the flag of St David, which is a yellow cross on a black background.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5670\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5670\" style=\"width: 203px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/03\/wales_flag.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5670\" src=\"https:\/\/ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2015\/03\/wales_flag-203x152.jpg\" alt=\"The flag of Wales \" width=\"203\" height=\"152\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The flag of Wales<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Baner Cymru is the striking flag of Wales, and features a red\u00a0dragon. According to <a title=\"Flag of Wales\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Flag_of_Wales\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0the flag was granted official status in 1959.<\/p>\n<p>In Welsh, the daffodil is known as &#8220;Peter&#8217;s leek,&#8221;\u00a0<i>Cenhinen Bedr.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Wales also\u00a0boasts more castles per square mile than any other country in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Until next time<\/p>\n<p>Licks and wags<\/p>\n<p>Charlie and Rufus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out and about in recent days and I have spotted my first daffodil flowers of 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":5669,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[681,1],"tags":[17,867,5070,5293],"class_list":["post-5668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-featured","category-general","tag-carlisle","tag-daffodils","tag-spring","tag-st-davids-day","entry"],"featured_image_src":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/daffodils_carlisle_march2015-600x400.jpg","featured_image_src_square":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/daffodils_carlisle_march2015-600x600.jpg","author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/author\/mogsy\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5668"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5673,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5668\/revisions\/5673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ablogfrommydog.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}