{"id":2186,"date":"2008-12-04T01:34:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-04T07:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2186"},"modified":"2008-12-08T13:04:58","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T19:04:58","slug":"oranges-kind-of-are-the-only-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/food\/oranges-kind-of-are-the-only-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Oranges kind of are the only fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/3082034934\/\" title=\"oranges by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3174\/3082034934_4e76ec9c31.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" alt=\"oranges\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>About this time every year, I get a real thing for oranges. Call it the legacy of growing up in a band-fruit town. <\/p>\n<p>I exercised my auntly duty and bought fruit from the nephews, who are now both in band, meaning I purchased two count &#8217;em two boxes of fruit. I&#8217;ve got a box of amazingly slick-skinned navel oranges in the kitchen. And a box of pink grapefruit in the car. I don&#8217;t even like pink grapefruit, but I got an order of those instead of another order of oranges, thinking I could give the grapefruit away rather than just let the oranges sit and get old, waiting for me to get around to them. <\/p>\n<p>I could have handled two boxes. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had six oranges today. I&#8217;m a madwoman. I don&#8217;t know what it is, but when they are in my house, I have to devour them. I just want to put on my grey hoodie and cut the fruit into quarters, bite right in and try to manage the mess. Or peel and separate fruit from rind, gobbling up what can be eaten, my hands sticky, juice dripping off my chin and onto my shirt. Like a kid, almost. Just all slurps and sighs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About this time every year, I get a real thing for oranges. Call it the legacy of growing up in a band-fruit town. I exercised my auntly duty and bought fruit from the nephews, who are now both in band, meaning I purchased two count &#8217;em two boxes of fruit. I&#8217;ve got a box of amazingly slick-skinned navel oranges in the kitchen. And a box of pink grapefruit in the car. I don&#8217;t even like&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[656,2177,655,654],"class_list":["post-2186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-eating","tag-food","tag-fruit","tag-orange"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-zg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}