{"id":3103,"date":"2010-01-22T00:09:21","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T18:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/?p=3103"},"modified":"2010-01-22T10:13:01","modified_gmt":"2010-01-22T04:43:01","slug":"leaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/leaves.html","title":{"rendered":"Leaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3104\" title=\"leaves\" src=\"http:\/\/travel.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/leaves.jpg\" alt=\"leaves\" width=\"445\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/leaves.jpg 445w, http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/leaves-208x300.jpg 208w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 445px) 100vw, 445px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>While I was in Devarayanadurga, I was attracted by the way these stems projected skywards and the tiny leaves at the tip spread like a fan. To get the picture I wanted, I had to spend a few minutes standing very close to this plant, sometimes pushing a few stems to position myself properly. Some resin from the plant must have rubbed into my hand while I did this. A minute later while I was still trying to get variations of this image, I realized that an excellent aroma effused from the tiny bit of resin that was stuck on my palm. I pulled out a leaf and smelled it to check if it would have a similar smell. Incredibly, the leaves smelled like a fine variety of mangoes called <em>jeerige mavinakayi <\/em>that grows in malnad area<em>, <\/em>often used in making pickles.<\/p>\n<p>Any idea what is this plant called?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While I was in Devarayanadurga, I was attracted by the way these stems projected skywards and the tiny leaves at the tip spread like a fan. To get the picture I wanted, I had to spend a few minutes standing very close to this plant, sometimes pushing a few stems to position myself properly. Some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[157],"tags":[158],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","tag-photo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s4xrJt-leaves","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3108,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions\/3108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paintedstork.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}