{"id":1562,"date":"2020-08-07T19:06:16","date_gmt":"2020-08-08T02:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2020-09-06T18:09:02","modified_gmt":"2020-09-07T01:09:02","slug":"gherkins-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/gherkins-growing\/","title":{"rendered":"Gherkins Growing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/GherkinFruit1.gif\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1563\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m blown away by how fast the gherkin plant has grown. In just a few weeks&#8217; time it exploded to ten times its original size, and it hasn&#8217;t stopped. On a hot day it can grow 2 inches taller.  So far the tree rats have left it alone&#8211; our lettuce was not so lucky&#8211; but with fruit like this on the vine, I don&#8217;t know how long they&#8217;ll be able to resist it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m blown away by how fast the gherkin plant has grown. In just a few weeks&#8217; time it exploded to ten times its original size, and it hasn&#8217;t stopped. On a hot day it can grow 2 inches taller. So far the tree rats have left it alone&#8211; our lettuce was not so lucky&#8211; but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/gherkins-growing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Gherkins Growing<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,202,17,25],"tags":[200,201],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-gardening","category-personal","category-timelapse","tag-garden","tag-gherkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1564,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/1564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/otherthings.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}