{"id":25,"date":"2011-09-28T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T16:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=25"},"modified":"2011-09-28T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-28T16:18:00","slug":"speaking-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=25","title":{"rendered":"Speaking of &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of things that have been delayed a bit, the watermelons are a bit late here this year due to the odd weather. So this weekend I was out in the watermelon patch picking a few as they ripened. L took this picture with my phone &#8211; one of the clearer ones I have seen it take.<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zsi0NuOHk20\/ToNHCDZPl-I\/AAAAAAAAA7Q\/YYfPUknCc-U\/s1600\/Watermelon%2526me2011-09-24+11.53.39.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-zsi0NuOHk20\/ToNHCDZPl-I\/AAAAAAAAA7Q\/YYfPUknCc-U\/s640\/Watermelon%2526me2011-09-24+11.53.39.jpg\" width=\"640\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>The melon in my arms is about 22 lbs. &#8211; a good size but enough melon to keep L and I eating for days.<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that you can tell when a watermelon is ready to be picked by looking at the first curly tendril on the vine nearest the melon? \u00c2\u00a0When it curls and browns, the melon is ready for picking. I like that much more than the myriad of odd ways to tell when\u00c2\u00a0cantaloupe,\u00c2\u00a0muskmelons, and honeydews are ready. Just one simple visual inspection and you are set to go.<\/p>\n<p>Back to getting ready for the 5K this weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaking of things that have been delayed a bit, the watermelons are a bit late here this year due to the odd weather. So this weekend I was out in the watermelon patch picking a few as they ripened. L took this picture with my phone &#8211; one of the clearer ones I have seen &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/?p=25\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Speaking of &#8230;<\/span> <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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dljones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}