{"id":242,"date":"2008-10-20T10:25:10","date_gmt":"2008-10-20T15:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=242"},"modified":"2008-10-20T10:25:10","modified_gmt":"2008-10-20T15:25:10","slug":"hard-frost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Hard frost"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We got a hard frost Saturday night, and that was it for the tomatoes. Also the basil. I&#8217;d gotten most of the tomatoes off, but didn&#8217;t pick the last of the basil. It was 80F last week; I wasn&#8217;t expecting everything to go away quite so quickly. We finally closed the windows, but haven&#8217;t turned on the heat yet.<\/p>\n<p>Even with the tender greenery now shriveled and brown, there is plenty of interest in the autumn garden.  The female holly is showing off her berries.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/holly20081010.jpg\" alt=\"holly berries\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mahonia likewise, with similar leaves but different colors.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/mahonia20081010.jpg\" alt=\"Mahonia berries\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The trees are preparing themselves for winter.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/photos\/maple20081010.jpg\" alt=\"red maple tree\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;m preparing myself for raking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We got a hard frost Saturday night, and that was it for the tomatoes. Also the basil. I&#8217;d gotten most of the tomatoes off, but didn&#8217;t pick the last of the basil. It was 80F last week; I wasn&#8217;t expecting everything to go away quite so quickly. We finally closed the windows, but haven&#8217;t turned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-signs-of-autumn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stringpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}