{"id":11272,"date":"2017-11-21T11:01:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T15:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=11272"},"modified":"2017-11-21T17:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T21:39:00","slug":"la-saison-des-camelias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=11272","title":{"rendered":"La saison des cam\u00e9lias"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C-camellia-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"763\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C-camellia-1.jpg\" alt=\"\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C-camellia-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C-camellia-1-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C-camellia-1-768x586.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The abbey&#8217;s cam\u00e9lias have have reached above the roof line. It&#8217;s time for pruning, I think.<\/p>\n<p>The bee was working the cam\u00e9lias at 42 degrees F.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, when I think of cam\u00e9lias I always think of <em>La Dame aux Cam\u00e9lias<\/em> by Alexandre Dumas the younger, which, before my French started getting rusty, I read in French along with the elder Dumas&#8217; <em>Le Comte de Monte-Cristo<\/em>. Compared with his father&#8217;s work, the younger Dumas&#8217; writing reads like juvenilia. Yet the story is strangely compelling and hauntingly moody. Giuseppe Verdi turned the story into an opera &#8212; La Traviata.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C-camellia-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C-camellia-2.jpg\" alt=\"\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C-camellia-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C-camellia-2-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/C-camellia-2-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr>\n\n<div data-mode=\"normal\" data-oembed=\"1\" data-provider=\"youtube\" id=\"arve-youtube-_zjw-an1hii\" style=\"max-width:600px;\" class=\"arve aligncenter\">\n\t<div class=\"arve-inner\">\n\t\t<div style=\"aspect-ratio:840\/473\" class=\"arve-embed arve-embed--has-aspect-ratio\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"arve-ar\" style=\"padding-top:56.309524%\"><\/div>\n\t\t\t<iframe allow=\"accelerometer &apos;none&apos;;autoplay &apos;none&apos;;bluetooth &apos;none&apos;;browsing-topics &apos;none&apos;;camera &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-read &apos;none&apos;;clipboard-write;display-capture &apos;none&apos;;encrypted-media &apos;none&apos;;gamepad &apos;none&apos;;geolocation &apos;none&apos;;gyroscope &apos;none&apos;;hid &apos;none&apos;;identity-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;idle-detection &apos;none&apos;;keyboard-map &apos;none&apos;;local-fonts;magnetometer &apos;none&apos;;microphone &apos;none&apos;;midi &apos;none&apos;;otp-credentials &apos;none&apos;;payment &apos;none&apos;;picture-in-picture;publickey-credentials-create &apos;none&apos;;publickey-credentials-get &apos;none&apos;;screen-wake-lock &apos;none&apos;;serial &apos;none&apos;;summarizer &apos;none&apos;;sync-xhr;usb &apos;none&apos;;web-share;window-management &apos;none&apos;;xr-spatial-tracking &apos;none&apos;;\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"arve-iframe fitvidsignore\" credentialless data-arve=\"arve-youtube-_zjw-an1hii\" data-lenis-prevent=\"\" data-src-no-ap=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_zJW-aN1HII?feature=oembed&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;autohide=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"337.85714285714\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-presentation allow-popups allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/_zJW-aN1HII?feature=oembed&#038;iv_load_policy=3&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autoplay=0\" title=\"\" width=\"600\"><\/iframe>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\n\t<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">{\"@context\":\"http:\\\/\\\/schema.org\\\/\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/acornabbey.com\\\/blog\\\/?p=11272#arve-youtube-_zjw-an1hii\",\"@type\":\"VideoObject\",\"embedURL\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\\\/embed\\\/_zJW-aN1HII?feature=oembed&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&autohide=1&playsinline=0&autoplay=0\"}<\/script>\n\t\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The abbey&#8217;s cam\u00e9lias have have reached above the roof line. It&#8217;s time for pruning, I think. The bee was working the cam\u00e9lias at 42 degrees F. And yes, when I think of cam\u00e9lias I always think of La Dame aux Cam\u00e9lias by Alexandre Dumas the younger, which, before my French started getting rusty, I read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=11272\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;La saison des cam\u00e9lias&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11272"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11280,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11272\/revisions\/11280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}