{"id":7505,"date":"2019-11-01T08:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-11-01T08:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=7505"},"modified":"2019-11-01T08:00:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-01T08:00:29","slug":"is-it-yellow-rattle-yellow-archangel-or","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2019\/11\/01\/is-it-yellow-rattle-yellow-archangel-or\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it yellow rattle, yellow archangel, or ...?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days I can tell the difference between\u00a0yellow rattle and yellow archangel \u2013 and between ribbed melilot and weld \u2013 but I couldn't when I was at school. \u00a0I can do this now because I'm interested in what these flowers (which I come across regularly on my walks) are called and what they look like, and I value their existence.<\/p>\n<p>This is why I don't worry over-much about young (or not so young) people not knowing these things because they will come to doing so when they need and want to. \u00a0<strong>[*] <\/strong>The same applies to me when it comes to distinguishing and appreciating grime artists. \u00a0I'm desperate for this truly fantastic genre to become deeply and soulfully meaningful to me, but it looks as if I shall have to wait awhile yet.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[*]\u00a0<\/strong>For a contrary view see <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.spectator.co.uk\/2019\/07\/why-does-no-one-know-what-british-wild-flowers-look-like-and-why-it-matters\">this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days I can tell the difference between\u00a0yellow rattle and yellow archangel \u2013 and between ribbed melilot and weld \u2013 but I couldn't when I was at school. \u00a0I can do this now because I'm interested in what these flowers...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}