{"id":31913,"date":"2018-03-28T15:10:16","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T15:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=31913"},"modified":"2018-03-28T15:10:16","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T15:10:16","slug":"botany-trees-in-victoria-live-oak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/botany-trees-in-victoria-live-oak\/","title":{"rendered":"Botany: trees in Victoria: live oak"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tree idenitification leads to self-tutoring: the tutor describes a find in Victoria.<\/h1>\n<p>Victoria&#8217;s assortment of trees is amazing. Last fall I mentioned seeing a <a href=\"?p=25373\">gingko biloba<\/a> as well as an <a href=\"?p=25394\">amur corktree<\/a> there.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read a few times that there is a live oak on Dallas Road, near the breakwater. Yesterday I decided to drive by to check.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, there is one, I&#8217;d say: it&#8217;s across Dallas Road from the breakwater, a bit closer to downtown. It&#8217;s really noticeable right now, being the only tree around with leaves.<\/p>\n<p>The tree leans out to the road. I left the car and walked by it, then back, not really stopping. The house owner (my assumption) was sitting in the yard, so I didn&#8217;t want to intrude by stopping and staring at the tree. He gave me a friendly nod; I think he knew I was examining the tree. I think people commonly do.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Vic!<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tree idenitification leads to self-tutoring: the tutor describes a find in Victoria. Victoria&#8217;s assortment of trees is amazing. Last fall I mentioned seeing a gingko biloba as well as an amur corktree there. I&#8217;ve read a few times that there &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/botany-trees-in-victoria-live-oak\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Botany: trees in Victoria: live oak<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[779,1],"tags":[2820,898],"class_list":["post-31913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-uncategorized","tag-live-oak-in-victoria","tag-tree-identification"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31913"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31932,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31913\/revisions\/31932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}