{"id":10142,"date":"2017-05-18T10:29:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T14:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=10142"},"modified":"2017-05-18T10:29:45","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T14:29:45","slug":"the-perils-of-peaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=10142","title":{"rendered":"The perils of peaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/peaches.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"797\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/peaches.jpg\" alt=\"\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10143\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/peaches.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/peaches-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/peaches-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/peaches-1024x680.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s year eight in the orchard, and this year I just might get my first bite of peach.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the entire peach crop was wiped out by a late frost. This year, the three peach trees are loaded. One of the trees is weeks ahead of the other two trees and has dozens of already-red peaches. But each morning I notice that someone is knocking them down. It could be a squirrel, or it could be a raccoon that climbs the tree during the night. The animals are very wasteful. They knock down several peaches, take a bite from some of them, and leave the rest lying on the ground for the ants. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not yet picked any of the peaches off the tree because they&#8217;re still hard and need more time to ripen. But I do retrieve the peaches that have been knocked down and take them to the kitchen, hoping that they&#8217;ll ripen decently and that they&#8217;ll be fit to eat.<\/p>\n<p>If these four peaches ripen properly, there will be peaches and cream.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s year eight in the orchard, and this year I just might get my first bite of peach. Last year, the entire peach crop was wiped out by a late frost. This year, the three peach trees are loaded. One of the trees is weeks ahead of the other two trees and has dozens of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=10142\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The perils of peaches&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10145,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10142\/revisions\/10145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}