{"id":1350,"date":"2010-12-21T05:26:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-21T09:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2010-12-21T05:26:04","modified_gmt":"2010-12-21T09:26:04","slug":"winter-melon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Winter Melon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1351\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/winter-melon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1351\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1351\" title=\"My Niece holding a Watermelon In Mid-December\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/winter-melon.png\" alt=\"My Niece holding a Watermelon In Mid-December\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1351\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My Niece holding a Watermelon In Mid-December<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I picked a watermelon months ago when expecting guests, and left it sit on my kitchen counter. The guests came and went, and I forgot about the melon till the other day. I noticed it sitting there very much out of place, and decided it sat long enough.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the watermelons that grew this year were filled with water, and made a huge mess when they were cut open, so it was decided that the best place to cut it open would be outside. I had my helper hold the garden goodie for a photo before I opened it up.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1352\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/looks-edible.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1352\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1352\" title=\"Looks Edible...\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/looks-edible.png\" alt=\"Looks Edible...\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1352\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Looks Edible...<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When the fruit was exposed it looked good, smelled right, and so I had a taste. It wasn&#8217;t bad, and was a sure treat in the middle of December. It&#8217;s funny to think that this melon lasted for months on my kitchen counter, but only hours once it was cut open. The taste was great and we all had a big chunk. I even saved Babe (the pig) a little piece.<\/p>\n<p>I made it a point to save all of the seeds from this melon. I&#8217;ll plant them again next year, and save the seeds from the melons that last the longest. If I do this year after year, it will encourage the melons that last the longest to survive, somewhat like natural selection. In time I hope to name these long lasting melons: &#8220;Winter Melon&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I picked a watermelon months ago when expecting guests, and left it sit on my kitchen counter. The guests came and went, and I forgot about the melon till the other day. I noticed it sitting there very much out &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1350\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[74,88,129],"tags":[735,560],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}