{"id":8994,"date":"2013-10-31T11:37:22","date_gmt":"2013-10-31T18:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8994"},"modified":"2013-10-31T11:37:22","modified_gmt":"2013-10-31T18:37:22","slug":"lovely-larch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8994","title":{"rendered":"Lovely larch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is the time of year when people admire the colours of deciduous trees. Most of those trees are broad-leaved, but my favourite is actually a conifer: the larch.<\/p>\n<p>We have two local species: the Western Larch grows at low altitudes; the Alpine Larch grows at high. The larger of the two is the Western and it is the tree that mixes gold among the green where the valley walls rise out of the Lake.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8995\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/westernlarch131029s.jpg\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; This is the time of year when people admire the colours of deciduous trees. Most of those trees are broad-leaved, but my favourite is actually a conifer: the larch. We have two local species: the Western Larch grows at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=8994\">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":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scenes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8994"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8998,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8994\/revisions\/8998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}