{"id":23316,"date":"2022-04-19T08:12:57","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=23316"},"modified":"2022-04-19T08:14:17","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T12:14:17","slug":"everything-is-turning-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=23316","title":{"rendered":"Everything is turning green"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/L-lettuce-0.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23317\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/L-lettuce-0.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/L-lettuce-0-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/L-lettuce-0-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/L-lettuce-0-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The lettuce actually was planted by Ken last fall. It wintered over in a cold frame. Yesterday, during a cold rain, I picked it while it was at the peak of perfection. I washed it, chilled it, and ate it 40 minutes after it came in out of the rain. Who knew that lettuce could be so good? Lettuce may seem watery and light, but when you cut the stalk of good homegrown lettuce, a rich milky juice bubbles out. <\/p>\n<p>Most of the winter&#8217;s mustard was crushed by a heavy snow because I foolishly left the top of the cold frame open. But enough mustard survived for one potfull for later this week.<\/p>\n<p>I could happily live off of bread and cheese and wine. With the addition of fresh fruit and some super-green salad, even pizza probably would be healthy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" src=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/L-lettuce-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/L-lettuce-1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/L-lettuce-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/L-lettuce-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/L-lettuce-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lettuce actually was planted by Ken last fall. It wintered over in a cold frame. Yesterday, during a cold rain, I picked it while it was at the peak of perfection. I washed it, chilled it, and ate it 40 minutes after it came in out of the rain. Who knew that lettuce could &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=23316\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Everything is turning green&#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":[4,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23316","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=23316"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23324,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23316\/revisions\/23324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}