{"id":83,"date":"2011-08-13T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2011-08-13T20:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/?p=83"},"modified":"2011-08-13T15:06:41","modified_gmt":"2011-08-13T20:06:41","slug":"august-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/?p=83","title":{"rendered":"August 13"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m sitting outside. It’s cool enough in the shade, the locusts are buzzing, the cosmos is blooming, and tomatoes are ripening. Today we ate a tomato that weighed 1 1\/2 pounds. It’s a “beefsteak” variety, big and round.
\nA few days ago I “harvested” my compost which I started in January. I was shocked that it had finished so quickly. We have some friends visiting from far away, so we had a gathering for about 30 people. It was a potluck supper including a meat and bean dish, stir fry beef with celery, onions and mushrooms, rice, fried chicken, deviled eggs, hamburger, green salad, tomato\/mozarella\/black olive salad, cabbage salad, crackers & cheese & ham, cantaloupe, strawberries,watermelon, carrots, red peppers, cookies, banana cake, and chocolate torte with raspberries. About 10 children ran around, played games, and enjoyed life. My youngest grandchild asked, “Grandma Julia, is this a PARTY?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m sitting outside. It’s cool enough in the shade, the locusts are buzzing, the cosmos is blooming, and tomatoes are ripening. Today we ate a tomato that weighed 1 1\/2 pounds. It’s a “beefsteak” variety, big and round. A few days ago I “harvested” my compost which I started in January. I was shocked that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/talkingwithjulia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}