{"id":110940,"date":"2022-07-01T06:39:32","date_gmt":"2022-07-01T10:39:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=110940"},"modified":"2022-07-01T06:39:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T10:39:32","slug":"a-new-variety-of-apricot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=110940","title":{"rendered":"A New Variety of Apricot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am the person in our household responsible for assessing the quality and desirability of the type of fruit that we add to our shopping cart.&nbsp; I take pride in being a&nbsp;<em>student of fruit<\/em>, and attribute this interest and skill set to an inheritance from my Mother (although I confess to having a blind spot in picking appropriate strawberries and peaches\/nectarines).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I\u2019m always on the alert for the introduction of new variations.\u00a0 For example,\u00a0<em>white<\/em>\u00a0strawberries from Japan. Or,\u00a0<em>flying saucer<\/em>\u00a0strawberries. Or,\u00a0<em>cotton candy<\/em>\u00a0grapes and\u00a0<em>moon drop<\/em>\u00a0grapes.\u00a0 There always seems to be a new variety of apple worthy of testing.\u00a0 And then there are the &#8220;mongrel&#8221; combinations such as a cross of a plum and apricot:\u00a0<em>pluot\u00a0<\/em>(not a fan).\u00a0 Maybe just products of bored horticulturalists intent on tinkering with Mother Nature&#8217;s plan?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And speaking of apricots\u2026 here is a subtle variation&nbsp;of apricot that I picked up this past Sunday.&nbsp; &nbsp;Clearly identified in signage at our Stop &amp; Shop:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cTushie Apricots\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/apricot-rotated.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" src=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/apricot-rotated.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-110941\" srcset=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/apricot-rotated.jpg 480w, http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/apricot-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am the person in our household responsible for assessing the quality and desirability of the type of fruit that we add to our shopping cart.&nbsp; I take pride in being a&nbsp;student of fruit, and attribute this interest and skill &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/?p=110940\">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":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ministry-of-jokes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=110940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110942,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110940\/revisions\/110942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=110940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=110940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/summerofjim.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=110940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}