{"id":11014,"date":"2020-05-10T18:56:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-10T22:56:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=11014"},"modified":"2020-05-10T18:56:28","modified_gmt":"2020-05-10T22:56:28","slug":"platanus-occidentalis-and-fdr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/platanus-occidentalis-and-fdr\/","title":{"rendered":"platanus occidentalis and FDR"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11015\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11015\" style=\"width: 1028px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/200510-Sycamore-platanus-occidentalis.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1028\" height=\"687\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11015\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/200510-Sycamore-platanus-occidentalis.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/200510-Sycamore-platanus-occidentalis-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/200510-Sycamore-platanus-occidentalis-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/200510-Sycamore-platanus-occidentalis-768x513.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11015\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I could never find sycamore sprouts because I didn&#8217;t know what I was looking for.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<blockquote><p>A sycamore can grow to massive proportions, typically reaching up to 30 to 40 m (98 to 131 ft) high and 1.5 to 2 m (4.9 to 6.6 ft) in diameter when grown in deep soils. The largest of the species have been measured to 53 m (174 ft), and nearly 4 m (13 ft) in diameter. Larger specimens were recorded in historical times. In 1744, a Shenandoah Valley settler named Joseph Hampton and two sons lived for most of the year in a hollow sycamore in what is now Clarke County, Virginia.[8] In 1770, at Point Pleasant, Virginia (now in West Virginia)[9] near the junction of the Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, George Washington recorded in his journal a sycamore measuring 13.67 m (44 ft 10 in) in circumference at 91 cm (3 ft) from the ground.[10]&#8211;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Platanus_occidentalis\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sycamore can grow to massive proportions, typically reaching up to 30 to 40 m (98 to 131 ft) high and 1.5 to 2 m (4.9 to 6.6 ft) in diameter when grown in deep soils. The largest of the species have been measured to 53 m (174 ft), and nearly 4 m (13 ft) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/platanus-occidentalis-and-fdr\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;platanus occidentalis and FDR&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"sycamore sprouts, tiny","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[61,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-not-bw","category-trees"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11014"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11016,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11014\/revisions\/11016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}