{"id":7084,"date":"2013-05-01T10:42:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T15:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=7084"},"modified":"2013-05-01T10:44:25","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T15:44:25","slug":"end-of-the-apples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/end-of-the-apples\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the Apples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I miss apples. Seems like forever since I&#8217;ve had a good one. During our weird hot snap in March 2012, the trees bloomed and then they never set fruit. The 2012 apple crop was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.growingproduce.com\/article\/33245\/wisconsin-s-apple-crop-was-down-significantly-in-2012\">down about 50%<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Hardly any apples in the fall, and now that it&#8217;s spring, when the apples aren&#8217;t supposed to be any good, anyways, there&#8217;re no good apples to buy. I&#8217;ve tried the bagged and the bigger, loose ones from the co-op, organic apples grown in Washington, mostly &#8211; disappointing. I thought maybe the IN-organic ones from the commercial grocery&#8217;d be a touch better, because they turn (sell) faster &#8211; and, no. Have to resort to peeling them to make them edible at all, for my taste buds anyhow &#8211; the skins taste old and overwintered. I sure hope this year&#8217;s cool late spring is good for the trees.<\/p>\n<p>From Clotilde, of <a href=\"http:\/\/chocolateandzucchini.com\/\">Chocolate and Zucchini<\/a>, I&#8217;ve learned that the French phrase for, &#8220;Well, it&#8217;s not the end of the world&#8221;, meant ironically, is &#8220;It&#8217;s the end of the beans&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/chocolateandzucchini.com\/archives\/2009\/05\/la_fin_des_haricots.php\"><i>la fin des haricots.<\/i><\/a> I guess here in WI, it&#8217;s the end of the apples. Literally.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7085\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/YxiLn4zadC\/#\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7085\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7085\" alt=\"partly peeled grocery store apple\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/partlypeeled-400x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/partlypeeled-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/partlypeeled-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/partlypeeled.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">partly peeled grocery store apple<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, I miss apples. Seems like forever since I&#8217;ve had a good one. During our weird hot snap in March 2012, the trees bloomed and then they never set fruit. The 2012 apple crop was down about 50%. Hardly any apples in the fall, and now that it&#8217;s spring, when the apples aren&#8217;t supposed to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,99],"class_list":["post-7084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climate-change","tag-spring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7084"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7087,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7084\/revisions\/7087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}