{"id":1617,"date":"2014-12-20T09:19:36","date_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2014-12-20T09:19:36","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T14:19:36","slug":"evergreen-shape-due-to-climate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2014\/12\/evergreen-shape-due-to-climate\/","title":{"rendered":"Evergreen shape due to climate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>EarthSky<\/em> posted a neat article this week describing why most evergreen trees have a pyramid shape.\u00a0 The narrow shape on top helps reduce snow loads in the snowy climates they are often found in.\u00a0 The shape also helps reduce wind resistance, which is important for these trees with shallow root systems.\u00a0 You can read the complete article <a title=\"EarthSky on pyramid evergreen trees\" href=\"https:\/\/earthsky.org\/earth\/evergreen-tree-shape?utm_source=EarthSky+News&amp;utm_campaign=dabd353931-EarthSky_News&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_c643945d79-dabd353931-393619445\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1618\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Blue-spruce-196660.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1618\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Blue-spruce-196660-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Source: Commons Wikimedia\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Blue-spruce-196660-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Blue-spruce-196660.jpg 681w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Blue-spruce-196660-92x138.jpg 92w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EarthSky posted a neat article this week describing why most evergreen trees have a pyramid shape.\u00a0 The narrow shape on top helps reduce snow loads in the snowy climates they are often found in.\u00a0 The shape also helps reduce wind resistance, which is important for these trees with shallow root systems.\u00a0 You can read the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1618,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617","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=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1619,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1619"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}