{"id":790,"date":"2008-11-24T21:14:26","date_gmt":"2008-11-25T05:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=790"},"modified":"2009-05-24T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T18:25:06","slug":"pictures-from-palm-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2008\/11\/24\/pictures-from-palm-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Pictures from Palm Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We drove out to Palm Desert to visit Aviva’s mom and her boyfriend Dave.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re snowbirds – they spend the winter in Palm Desert and the summer outside Detroit.<\/p>\n

We walked on El Paseo on Thursday (lots of closed stores, not a good sign for the economy), and walked around Palm Springs on Saturday (the Sunday paper said that over 90 stores are closed in Palm Springs, also not a good sign for the economy).\u00c2\u00a0 We stopped at the Botanical Garden again, and the owner and his father were there; they showed us around a bit, and I took a couple of pictures of interesting desert plants they raise.<\/p>\n

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A plant from the Namibian desert – it looks like a skull<\/p>\n

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This plant stinks and draws flies (they are in the center) – the flies pollinate the flower<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We drove out to Palm Desert to visit Aviva’s mom and her boyfriend Dave.\u00c2\u00a0 They’re snowbirds – they spend the winter in Palm Desert and the summer outside Detroit. We walked on El Paseo on Thursday (lots of closed stores, not a good sign for the economy), and walked around Palm Springs on Saturday (the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"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":""},"categories":[544,8,143,403],"tags":[424,47,425,426],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palm-springs","category-personal","category-travel-foreign","category-united-states","tag-botanical-garden","tag-detroit","tag-namibian-desert","tag-palm-desert"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2w3Qj-cK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}