{"id":6009,"date":"2014-02-27T10:25:25","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T02:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?p=6009"},"modified":"2014-03-28T16:24:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-28T08:24:44","slug":"afghan-melons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/27\/afghan-melons\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Melons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140227_100145.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5993\" alt=\"20140227_100145\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140227_100145-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140227_100145-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140227_100145.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I spent a couple of days picking the afghan melons from the <a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/?s=%22new+oat%22\">new oat paddock<\/a>. \u00a0They are actually a wild relative of the watermelon and share the same name, <a href=\"http:\/\/keyserver.lucidcentral.org\/weeds\/data\/03030800-0b07-490a-8d04-0605030c0f01\/media\/Html\/Citrullus_lanatus_var._lanatus.htm\">Citrullus lanatus<\/a>,\u00a0but are bitter and unpalatable. \u00a0 \u00a0Their one and only benefit is that they grow over summer and can\u00a0stabilise areas prone to wind erosion. \u00a0Some of the &#8220;arms&#8221; of the vines I pulled up were over 3 metres long. \u00a0Interestingly the stems and leaves smell exactly like peanut butter when you crush them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140227_092624.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5994 alignleft\" alt=\"20140227_092624\" src=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140227_092624-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140227_092624-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140227_092624.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spent a couple of days picking the afghan melons from the new oat paddock. \u00a0They are actually [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5993,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-property"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/20140227_100145.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6009"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6011,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6009\/revisions\/6011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cathmiller.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}