{"id":827,"date":"2026-02-13T16:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/?p=827"},"modified":"2026-02-13T16:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T00:23:29","slug":"plants-have-what-i-did-not-know-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/2026\/02\/13\/plants-have-what-i-did-not-know-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Plants Have What? I Did Not Know This"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I noticed my seedlings move a bit throughout the day, but none more than the tomatillos. Even before I started gardening, I knew that some plants did this – especially some flowers, but I didn’t really think about it in terms of a circadian rhythm. I’d only ever thought of the concept in terms of humans. But of course<\/a> most living things would have one. This planet, with it’s cycle, is where we all live and have developed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noticed my seedlings move a bit throughout the day, but none more than the tomatillos. Even before I started gardening, I knew that some plants did this – especially some flowers, but I didn’t really think about it in terms of a circadian rhythm. I’d only ever thought of the concept in terms of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":830,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/827\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.simonfoust.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}