{"id":2236,"date":"2012-11-07T23:48:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-08T04:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=2236"},"modified":"2012-11-10T20:23:27","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T01:23:27","slug":"american-persimmon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=2236","title":{"rendered":"American Persimmon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2238\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img_20121107_046715.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2238\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img_20121107_046715-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"American Persimmon (Diospyros virginiana)\" title=\"American Persimmon (&lt;em&gt;Diospyros virginiana&lt;\/em&gt;)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img_20121107_046715-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img_20121107_046715-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img_20121107_046715-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img_20121107_046715-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/img_20121107_046715.jpg 1250w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2238\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">American Persimmon (<em>Diospyros virginiana<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I went out for a walk this afternoon and noticed a persimmon tree (the American Persimmon, <em>Diospyros virginiana<\/em>) with quite a good crop of ripe persimmons. I gave the tree a shake and picked up a good handful to bring home. I do like a good, ripe persimmon, even though they are mostly seed. Be careful to wait until they are ripe, though, or they will turn your mouth inside out. This one is just about perfect, sitting on a sycamore leaf, almost begging to be eaten.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I went out for a walk this afternoon and noticed a persimmon tree (the American Persimmon, Diospyros virginiana) with quite a good crop of ripe persimmons. I gave the tree a shake and picked up a good handful to bring home. I do like a good, ripe persimmon, even though they are mostly seed. Be &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=2236\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2236"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2236\/revisions\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}