{"id":777,"date":"2012-08-03T13:53:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-03T17:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/?p=777"},"modified":"2012-08-03T13:53:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-03T17:53:06","slug":"firsts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/?p=777","title":{"rendered":"firsts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a bunch of photos sitting in my &#8220;new post&#8221; folder, some for a few weeks, so I decided to just post them. This was originally going to be about the few bits of color among all the green of the garden and trees, but then I noticed a few firsts among these photos: first real beet harvest (and canned pickled beets), first broccoli ever grown, first caspian pink tomato, and first homemade\/canned jam (raspberry &amp; blueberry).<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-777 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/veggies.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/veggies-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/beets.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/beets-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pickledbeets.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pickledbeets-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/broccoli.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/broccoli-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/broccoli2.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/broccoli2-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/wax.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/wax-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/midgets.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/midgets-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/caspian.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/caspian-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jam.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jam-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>(Man, I wish I liked tomatoes! And peppers.)<\/p>\n<p>And on the topic of gardening, I love and can so relate in all ways to this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rabbitroom.com\/2012\/08\/you-shall-be-my-pumpkins\/\">post from Andrew Peterson<\/a>. (By the way, our solution to the deer invasion problem was a solar powered electric fence!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had a bunch of photos sitting in my &#8220;new post&#8221; folder, some for a few weeks, so I decided to just post them. This was originally going to be about the few bits of color among all the green &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/?p=777\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=777"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lostforest.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}