{"id":1709,"date":"2010-09-14T17:07:22","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T21:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2016-11-03T09:46:18","modified_gmt":"2016-11-03T13:46:18","slug":"growing-big-and-tall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg-facts\/growing-big-and-tall\/","title":{"rendered":"Bamboo can grow 4 feet every 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bamboo, a member of the grass family (Poaceae), is a pretty spectacular plant. It can grow to more 130 feet in height, at a rate of\u00a0 4 feet every 24 hours.\u00a0Just think of how quickly you would be ready to play in the NBA if you grew like bamboo.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11080 aligncenter\" title=\"bamboo\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/tall_bamboo.jpeg\" alt=\"bamboo, grass, tall\" width=\"337\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/tall_bamboo.jpeg 337w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/tall_bamboo-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/tall_bamboo-280x420.jpeg 280w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/tall_bamboo-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/p>\n<h5><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Earth Rangers<\/a> is a non-profit organization that works to inspire and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/resources.html\">educate<\/a> children about the environment. At EarthRangers.com kids can play <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/games\/\">games<\/a>, discover <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/category\/omg-facts\/\">amazing facts<\/a>, meet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/animals\/\">animal ambassadors<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bringbackthewild.com\/\">fundraise<\/a> to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/bbtw\/about.html\" target=\"_self\">biodiversity<\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you thought your growth spurts caused you to grow quickly, take a look at this plant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,409,931],"tags":[28,117,413,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-1709","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg-plants","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-forest","11":"tag-largest","12":"tag-pictures","13":"tag-plants"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}