{"id":30576,"date":"2018-11-23T16:56:26","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T21:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invasives-1.jpg"},"modified":"2018-11-23T16:58:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T21:58:22","slug":"invasives-2","status":"inherit","type":"attachment","link":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/2018\/11\/27\/goal-empower-cities-plan-positive-natural-future-one-specific-action-taken-achieve-goal\/invasives-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Invasives"},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"class_list":["post-30576","attachment","type-attachment","status-inherit","hentry"],"description":{"rendered":"<p class=\"attachment\"><a href='https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invasives-1.webp'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"367\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invasives-1.webp\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n"},"caption":{"rendered":"<p>An area of lush coastal forest near Durban is overrun by invasive aliens (Eucalyptus spp., Melia azedarach, Ricinus communis, Canna indica, Cardiospermum grandiflorum, Solanum mauritianum, etc., right, coloured red). There is not much for local insects to eat in this \u2018green desert\u2019 and consequently little food for many other animals. The fact that birds eat bugweed (Solanum mauritianum) seeds, or that the eucalypts provide forage for local bee keepers does not mean these plants are providing a valuable service. It only means some animals are able to eat the only food available. The same bee- and bird-food service would be provided better and more reliably by indigenous trees \u2013 if there were any. Photos: Marlies Craig<\/p>\n"},"alt_text":"","media_type":"image","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","media_details":{"width":1000,"height":367,"file":"2018\/11\/Invasives-1.webp","filesize":68766,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"file":"Invasives-1-600x240.webp","width":600,"height":240,"filesize":37082,"sources":{"image\/webp":{"file":"Invasives-1-600x240.webp","filesize":37082}},"mime_type":"image\/webp","source_url":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invasives-1-600x240.webp"},"4x5-Portrait":{"file":"Invasives-1-563x367.webp","width":563,"height":367,"filesize":39914,"mime_type":"image\/webp","source_url":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invasives-1-563x367.webp"},"4x5-Landscape":{"file":"Invasives-1-450x367.webp","width":450,"height":367,"filesize":32086,"mime_type":"image\/webp","source_url":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invasives-1-450x367.webp"},"post-thumbnail":{"file":"Invasives-1-604x270.webp","width":604,"height":270,"filesize":39300,"mime_type":"image\/webp","source_url":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invasives-1-604x270.webp"},"full":{"file":"Invasives-1.webp","width":1000,"height":367,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","source_url":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invasives-1.webp"}},"image_meta":{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0","keywords":[]},"original_image":"Invasives-1.jpg","sources":{"image\/webp":{"file":"Invasives-1.webp","filesize":68766}}},"post":30562,"source_url":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Invasives-1.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/attachment"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30576"}],"wp:attached-to":[{"embeddable":true,"post_type":"post","id":30562,"href":"https:\/\/www.thenatureofcities.com\/TNOC\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}