{"id":29471,"date":"2013-06-17T14:12:26","date_gmt":"2013-06-17T21:12:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?p=29471"},"modified":"2013-06-17T14:12:26","modified_gmt":"2013-06-17T21:12:26","slug":"bitterroot-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=29471","title":{"rendered":"Bitterroot Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?attachment_id=29477\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29477\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?attachment_id=29474\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29474\"><br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/?attachment_id=29475\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29475\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-29475 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/dev-clm-blog.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"179\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2.jpg 1431w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>I have a new favorite plant, the Bitterroot (<em>Lewisia rediviva<\/em>). What I have learned about this plant is that the roots were consumed by Native American tribes such as the Shoshone and the Flathead Indians. Since I am stationed at the Shoshone ID field office I was interested to learn that the Shoshone Indians believed the small red core of the taproot had the power to be able to stop a bear attack. So, since I am out traipsing around in the mountains of Idaho, I am going to eat a little of the bitterroot plant to protect me. Couldn&#8217;t hurt right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a new favorite plant, the Bitterroot (Lewisia rediviva). What I have learned about this plant is that the roots were consumed by Native American tribes such as the Shoshone and the Flathead Indians. Since I am stationed at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/?p=29471\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1716,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29471"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1716"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29471"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29925,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29471\/revisions\/29925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.clminternship.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}