{"id":11349,"date":"2012-06-09T08:00:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-09T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=11349"},"modified":"2012-06-01T17:30:35","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T00:30:35","slug":"how-trees-make-food-for-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/06\/how-trees-make-food-for-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trees Make Food for Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tree-facts.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11350\" title=\"tree-facts\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tree-facts.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tree-facts.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/tree-facts-340x259.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Leaves are the food processing factories for trees.\u00a0 The plants use their roots to take in water and other essential nutrients.\u00a0 The leaves then use the water and carbon dioxide from the air, in combination with sunlight, to turn the water and carbon dioxide into glucose, also giving off the byproduct oxygen in the process.\u00a0 It then uses the glucose for energy for growing and maintaining itself.\u00a0 Excess glucose is turned into starch and used during winter for food.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why leaves change color in the fall\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/09\/why-leaves-change-color-in-the-fall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reference<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leaves are the food processing factories for trees.\u00a0 The plants use their roots to take in water and other essential nutrients.\u00a0 The leaves then use the water and carbon dioxide from the air, in combination with sunlight, to turn the water and carbon dioxide into glucose, also giving off the byproduct oxygen in the process.\u00a0 It then uses the glucose [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2700,2699,1112,2698],"class_list":["post-11349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-botony-facts","tag-leaf-facts","tag-quick-facts-2","tag-tree-facts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11349"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11351,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11349\/revisions\/11351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}