{"id":19865,"date":"2025-06-12T07:21:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T14:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19865"},"modified":"2025-05-14T11:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:49:04","slug":"great-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19865","title":{"rendered":"Great Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2924.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"432\" data-attachment-id=\"19800\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=19800\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2924.jpeg?fit=1500%2C926&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1500,926\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.2&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 15 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1743495629&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;2.2200000286119&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;50&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.0005720823798627&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_2924\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2924.jpeg?fit=700%2C432&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2924.jpeg?resize=700%2C432&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19800\" style=\"width:540px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2924.jpeg?resize=1024%2C632&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2924.jpeg?resize=300%2C185&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2924.jpeg?resize=768%2C474&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2924.jpeg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/IMG_2924.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cAll great change begins at the dinner table.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ronald Reagan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The photo is of an Ocotillo in bloom in the Phoenix Mountain Preserve. Interestingly Ocotillo are not Cacti. They are in the same family as the Boogum tree found wild in Northern Baja and domesticated at a botanical garden near you. <br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I could make a long explanatory note about the Reagan quote. Suffice it to say that culture precedes politics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cAll great change begins at the dinner table.\u201d\u00a0 Ronald Reagan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[41,229,61,311],"class_list":["post-19865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weekly-maxim","category-simon-says","tag-flowers","tag-hiking","tag-maxim","tag-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_2924.jpeg?fit=1500%2C926&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5ap","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19968,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19865\/revisions\/19968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}