{"id":4445,"date":"2012-08-12T10:14:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T15:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2012-08-12T10:14:07","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T15:14:07","slug":"persimmons-volunteering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4445","title":{"rendered":"Persimmons, volunteering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/S-persimmon-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/S-persimmon-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"S-persimmon-1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4446\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have carefully protected the four native persimmon trees that volunteered around the edges of the yard. They&#8217;re about eight feet tall now. This year, two of them are bearing. There are lots of wild persimmons along the edges of local woods, but they&#8217;re usually so surrounded by undergrowth and tangle that it&#8217;s hard to retrieve the fruit. I can mow around these four trees. They&#8217;ll be easy to get at.<\/p>\n<p>Something else to fight the raccoons for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have carefully protected the four native persimmon trees that volunteered around the edges of the yard. They&#8217;re about eight feet tall now. This year, two of them are bearing. There are lots of wild persimmons along the edges of local woods, but they&#8217;re usually so surrounded by undergrowth and tangle that it&#8217;s hard to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=4445\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Persimmons, volunteering&#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":[4,15,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-sustainable-living","category-the-land"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","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=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}