{"id":753,"date":"2010-07-15T10:09:49","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T14:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itfarmer.wordpress.com\/?p=753"},"modified":"2010-07-15T10:09:49","modified_gmt":"2010-07-15T14:09:49","slug":"calm-before-the-storm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=753","title":{"rendered":"Calm Before the Storm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_754\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/small-heist.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-754\" class=\"size-full wp-image-754\" title=\"A Small Heist\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/small-heist.png\" alt=\"A Small Heist\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-754\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Small Heist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Having a garden is like having a grocery store in your backyard, and it&#8217;s a great feeling to walk out without paying a dime. It&#8217;s almost like you feel guilty for\u00a0&#8220;stealing&#8221; food. The only theft your really guilty of is from your self, and the hard work you have invested. This is the outcome, the payback, the reward.<\/p>\n<p>In between helping a friend with her MP3 player, I found the above assortment, without much effort. I consider it the calm before the storm, as these plants are just barely getting started. The produce above includes Cucumbers, Squash, Tomatoes, Cherries, and a Merlot Pepper. Earlier in the day I had found some Black Berries, and a few small Blueberries, but they found their way to my belly before this photo was snapped.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_755\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/pickles.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-755\" class=\"size-full wp-image-755\" title=\"Boston Pickling Cucumber\" src=\"http:\/\/www.itfarmersblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/import\/pickles.png\" alt=\"Boston Pickling Cucumber\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-755\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Boston Pickling Cucumber<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Once again, this garden has amazed me. Above is a Pickling Cucumber, and I had no idea they were capable of growing so large. I&#8217;m not sure how I missed this one as it was growing, but grow it did&#8230; I bet this one\u00a0could be made into a whole jar of pickles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having a garden is like having a grocery store in your backyard, and it&#8217;s a great feeling to walk out without paying a dime. It&#8217;s almost like you feel guilty for\u00a0&#8220;stealing&#8221; food. The only theft your really guilty of is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/?p=753\">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":[31,42,121],"tags":[242,507,533],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753"}],"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=753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/itfarmersblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}