{"id":8516,"date":"2016-06-01T13:13:30","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T17:13:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=8516"},"modified":"2016-06-01T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T17:14:43","slug":"the-angelic-side-of-those-devil-blackberries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=8516","title":{"rendered":"The angelic side of those devil blackberries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"728\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-1.jpg\" alt=\"berries-1\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8517\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-1-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-1-768x559.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For eleven months of the year, blackberries are terrible neighbors. They come up everywhere. If you get anywhere near them, they reach out and grab you with their briars. Their stems are as tough as Kevlar, and it&#8217;s very difficult to cut them back.<\/p>\n<p>But for one month of the year, blackberries pay you back with &#8212; blackberries. May was a good growing month, so June promises to be an outstandingly good blackberry month.<\/p>\n<p>There will be pies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"864\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-2.jpg\" alt=\"berries-2\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-2-300x259.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-2-768x664.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"874\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-3.jpg\" alt=\"berries-3\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-3.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-3-300x262.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-3-768x671.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"664\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-4.jpg\" alt=\"berries-4\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-4.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-4-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-4-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"785\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-5.jpg\" alt=\"berries-5\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-5.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-5-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-5-768x603.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"835\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-6.jpg\" alt=\"berries-6\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-6.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-6-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/berries-6-768x641.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For eleven months of the year, blackberries are terrible neighbors. They come up everywhere. If you get anywhere near them, they reach out and grab you with their briars. Their stems are as tough as Kevlar, and it&#8217;s very difficult to cut them back. But for one month of the year, blackberries pay you back &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=8516\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The angelic side of those devil blackberries&#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-8516","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\/8516","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=8516"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8526,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8516\/revisions\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}