{"id":345,"date":"2008-07-03T21:05:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T02:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=345"},"modified":"2008-07-03T21:05:58","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T02:05:58","slug":"first-cucumber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=345","title":{"rendered":"first cucumber!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth of July weekend has begun! It was a scorcher today and is supposed to be the same throughout the weekend. Yun and I are planning to do some serious work around the house and backyard over the next few days. I have hopes to be able to complete the perimeter wall! I took Liam to the airport late last night as he is off, once again, to the Middle East for his fourth tour in two years.<\/p>\n<p>The plants in the backyard look as though the sun is taking a serious toll, but I did discover buried among the vines of my cucumber plant a few massive cucumbers! These are Armenian cucumbers which apparently do pretty well in our climate. Yun and I ate some a few minutes ago and were quite pleased with how sweet they are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/first-cucumber-ever.jpg\" title=\"first-cucumber-ever.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/first-cucumber-ever.jpg\" alt=\"first-cucumber-ever.jpg\" height=\"308\" width=\"472\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scout seems to be doing ok during the day enduring 9-10 hours of sun. We&#8217;ve built him a nice sun shade which we hope eases the burden. He usually prefers to be outside (even in the heat of the day) which suggests he&#8217;s not bothered much by the temperature.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/scout-070308.jpg\" title=\"scout-070308.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/07\/scout-070308.jpg\" alt=\"scout-070308.jpg\" height=\"244\" width=\"365\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fourth of July weekend has begun! It was a scorcher today and is supposed to be the same throughout the weekend. Yun and I are planning to do some serious work around the house and backyard over the next few &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/?p=345\">Continue reading <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":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-garden","category-scout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/muchachopolaco.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}