{"id":2016,"date":"2012-07-31T14:28:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-31T21:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2012-07-31T17:10:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T00:10:14","slug":"first-harvests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/?p=2016","title":{"rendered":"First Harvests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/siduri\/7686805550\/\" title=\"004 by Jo Shannon Phillips, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8019\/7686805550_f904f4b9f1.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" alt=\"004\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I picked a small bowl of blackberries from our yard today. They were quickly devoured:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/siduri\/7686811890\/\" title=\"015 by Jo Shannon Phillips, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8022\/7686811890_969a2926e0.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" alt=\"015\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>For lunch we had spaghetti with olive oil, garlic, parmesan, a fresh tomato, a handful of pine nuts, and some basil from our garden. Imagine me kissing my fingertips here: it was mmmm-mwah!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  \"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/siduri\/7686808892\/\" title=\"002 by Jo Shannon Phillips, on Flickr\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8158\/7686808892_08852bb340.jpg\" width=\"415\" height=\"415\" alt=\"002\"><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>We also harvested the first zucchini from the garden this week. One of them was normal-sized, and I cooked it in a pot of black beans and rice. But the other was monstrous, bigger than a man&#8217;s forearm, and that one I hollowed out last night and stuffed with brown rice, sausage, tomato, and cheese, then roasted in the oven until it was soft and beginning to brown. It was delicious. Even Robin, who is in a strong anti-vegetable phase right now, ate some and said it was good.<\/p>\n<p>There are more mondo zucchini lurking under the leaves. I see them, but they&#8217;re still pallid and unripe. It&#8217;s possible that they&#8217;re actually squash. The squash and zucchini have grown so thickly together that I can&#8217;t really tell where one vine ends and the other begins. Meanwhile the tomatoes are still green, but I am casting covetous eyes at them every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked a small bowl of blackberries from our yard today. They were quickly devoured: For lunch we had spaghetti with olive oil, garlic, parmesan, a fresh tomato, a handful of pine nuts, and some basil from our garden. Imagine me kissing my fingertips here: it was mmmm-mwah! We also harvested the first zucchini from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2016"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/shannon.users.sonic.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}