{"id":3340,"date":"2009-02-16T00:00:03","date_gmt":"2009-02-16T00:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=3340"},"modified":"2009-02-16T00:00:03","modified_gmt":"2009-02-16T00:00:03","slug":"corridor-of-spanish-moss-st-augustine-fl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2009\/02\/16\/corridor-of-spanish-moss-st-augustine-fl\/","title":{"rendered":"Corridor of Spanish Moss &#8211; St. Augustine, FL"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/florida\/st_augustine\/st_augustine_cypress02.jpg?resize=500%2C747\" alt=\"\u00a9 Frank H. Jump\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/florida\/st_augustine\/st_augustine_cypress01.jpg?resize=500%2C747\" alt=\"\u00a9 Frank H. Jump\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><em><span style=\"color:#808000;\">The moss is sometimes bought for use in <a title=\"Arts and crafts\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Arts_and_crafts\" target=\"_blank\">arts and crafts<\/a>, or for beddings for flower <a title=\"Garden\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Garden\" target=\"_blank\">gardens<\/a>.It was once used to stuff mattresses. The plant is commonly believed to be a habitat for <a title=\"Harvest mite\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harvest_mite\" target=\"_blank\">chiggers<\/a>, but only collects the mites after it has touched the ground. Spanish moss in its natural habitat, hanging from trees, does not harbor chiggers.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><em><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Spanish_moss\" target=\"_blank\">Spanish Moss<\/a> &#8211; Wikipedia<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\"><span style=\"color:#808000;\"><em>You can dispel Edison myths (alas, the light bulbs burning in the estate are not Edison&#8217;s originals), hear funny stories (Henry Ford stuffed the seats of his first Model T imprudently with local Spanish moss, which prompted the first automotive recall when little chiggers started crawling out and biting drivers on the butts), or just learn a little about the quirks of these American legends (Edison hated paparazzi, so he disembarked from the train before the station and walked the rest of the way). &#8211; <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/floridaforum.nl\/archive\/index.php\/t-4385.html\" target=\"_blank\">Florida Forum<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The moss is sometimes bought for use in arts and crafts, or for beddings for flower gardens.It was once used to stuff mattresses. The plant is commonly believed to be a habitat for chiggers, but only collects the mites after it has touched the ground. Spanish moss in its natural habitat, hanging from trees, does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1192,1423,1435],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-spanish-moss","category-st-augustine-fl"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-RS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}