{"id":1996,"date":"2011-08-01T10:49:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T14:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2011-08-01T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-01T14:49:14","slug":"1996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"Finally Cucumbers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1997\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/cucumber.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1997\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1997\" title=\"Cucumber\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/cucumber.png\" alt=\"Cucumber\" width=\"540\" height=\"373\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1997\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cucumber<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I finally snapped a picture of a cucumber forming on Friday. These small veggies were hard fought for, and late in the season. To get this photo I had to battle two foes. First the ever present and hungry cucumber beetles. Second, furry ground hogs which are the size of a small beagle, with an appetite that would put a hound to shame.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1998\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/cucumber2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1998\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1998\" title=\"Cucumber\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/cucumber2.png\" alt=\"Cucumber\" width=\"540\" height=\"440\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1998\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cucumber<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now that I have the chance to see a cucumber I&#8217;m left wondering about those tiny spikes on the edges. I&#8217;ve tried to do a search online to find their meaning, with no luck.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1999\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/cucumber3.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1999\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1999\" title=\"Cucumber\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/cucumber3.png\" alt=\"Cucumber\" width=\"540\" height=\"396\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1999\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cucumber<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Spikes or not, I was quite happy to find this larger cucumber latter in the weekend. It&#8217;s big enough for salad, and it was quite good, perhaps even more so because it was hard fought for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finally snapped a picture of a cucumber forming on Friday. These small veggies were hard fought for, and late in the season. To get this photo I had to battle two foes. First the ever present and hungry cucumber &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=1996\">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":[22,42,62],"tags":[242],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996"}],"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=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}