{"id":16146,"date":"2018-11-26T22:29:15","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T03:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=16146"},"modified":"2018-11-26T22:29:15","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T03:29:15","slug":"atlas-obscura-worlds-loneliest-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/11\/atlas-obscura-worlds-loneliest-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlas Obscura: World&#8217;s Loneliest Tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Atlas Obscura<\/em> had an interesting article this week about a tree that is located on subantarctic Campbell Island, a Sitka spruce that is 170 miles from the next nearest tree of any species in the Auckland Islands. It looks more like a bush than a conifer, rumor has it, because some previous inhabitants of the island (weather observers) cut down the top for a Christmas tree. For more information on how it got there and how well it is doing in the wet and windy climate, check out the short article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atlasobscura.com\/places\/worlds-loneliest-tree?utm_medium=atlas-page&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;fbclid=IwAR1daGvMJBc1RYGVdGgNsVJTIwQxF7s8YskCf9i4csZHDyY57ttJgZhY8I0\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16147\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16147\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/loneliest-tree.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16147\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/loneliest-tree-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/loneliest-tree-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/loneliest-tree-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/loneliest-tree-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/loneliest-tree-207x138.jpg 207w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2018\/11\/loneliest-tree.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-16147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Ellen Rykers, Atlas Obscura user<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atlas Obscura had an interesting article this week about a tree that is located on subantarctic Campbell Island, a Sitka spruce that is 170 miles from the next nearest tree of any species in the Auckland Islands. It looks more like a bush than a conifer, rumor has it, because some previous inhabitants of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":16147,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-forests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16148,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16146\/revisions\/16148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}