{"id":3647,"date":"2017-07-24T14:39:11","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T20:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/?p=3647"},"modified":"2017-08-22T21:54:27","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T03:54:27","slug":"wild-mint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/2017\/07\/24\/wild-mint\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants: Wild Mint"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Wild-Mint-Flowering.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-magnific_type=\"image\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Wild-Mint-Flowering-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100%\"  class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3648\" srcset=\"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Wild-Mint-Flowering-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Wild-Mint-Flowering-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Wild-Mint-Flowering-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Wild-Mint-Flowering.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I thought people might find it interesting to see some of the plants I regularly come across while hiking. This is wild mint. It is usually found in damp or swampy areas. Sometimes I smell it before I see it but it is especially potent when you pick a leaf and crunch it up under your nose. It is sometimes hard to see from a distance because it is usually shorter than the reeds or grass surrounding it. You can identify it by the smell, but to make sure it&#8217;s actually mint, check that it has a squarish stem and the leaves are on opposite sides of the stem. It makes a very nice tea!<\/p>\n<p>Taken near Crimson Lake, AB<br \/>\n40mm, f2.8, 1\/60 of a second<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought people might find it interesting to see some of the plants I regularly come across while hiking. This is wild mint. It is usually found in damp or swampy areas. Sometimes I smell it before I see it but it is especially potent when you pick a leaf and crunch it up under [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[738,729,730,2364,737],"tags":[3171,2299,127,1057,3170,193,3169,3172,345,3167],"class_list":["post-3647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers-2","category-forest-2","category-macro-2","category-marshes","category-plants","tag-drink","tag-flower","tag-lake","tag-leaves","tag-marsh","tag-plant","tag-purple","tag-smell","tag-swamp","tag-tea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3664,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3647\/revisions\/3664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/joelkoop.com\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}