{"id":2202,"date":"2010-10-28T13:41:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2202"},"modified":"2010-10-28T13:41:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T18:41:15","slug":"apple-and-cabbage-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2202","title":{"rendered":"Apple and cabbage country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ayers-orchard-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ayers-orchard-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ayers-orchard-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2203\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After two rainy days, two dark and stormy nights, and a total of 3.7 inches of rain, I went on a little outing today to southern Virginia to buy apples and cabbage. It&#8217;s not really very far. Acorn Abbey is only 13 miles from the Virginia state line.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice living near apple country, but it&#8217;s disappointing that most of the orchards grow only the top-selling and less interesting varieties such as Golden Delicious and Stayman. It&#8217;s going to be a few more years before the little orchard at Acorn Abbey (with eight varieties of apples) kicks in, so I&#8217;ll take what I can get. The apples were four dollars a peck.<\/p>\n<p>Ayers Orchard also grows grapes. They don&#8217;t make wine, but they sell the grapes to winemakers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ayers-orchard-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ayers-orchard-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"ayers-orchard-2\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2204\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After two rainy days, two dark and stormy nights, and a total of 3.7 inches of rain, I went on a little outing today to southern Virginia to buy apples and cabbage. It&#8217;s not really very far. Acorn Abbey is only 13 miles from the Virginia state line. It&#8217;s nice living near apple country, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=2202\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Apple and cabbage country&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202","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=2202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}