{"id":12909,"date":"2024-04-09T15:55:20","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T20:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=12909"},"modified":"2024-04-09T15:58:51","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T20:58:51","slug":"california-is-a-horn-of-plenty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/12909","title":{"rendered":"California Is A Horn Of Plenty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I see the strawberries are in season now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12910\" src=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/strawberryfield.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/strawberryfield.jpg 843w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/strawberryfield-300x179.jpg 300w, https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/strawberryfield-768x457.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is a big strawberry field less than a mile from my brother&#8217;s house. This shot is maybe one-forth of the area of the field. When I arrived last month the strawberries weren&#8217;t ready to harvest.\u00a0They&#8217;ve a little shack on the street corner where you can buy fresh from the field strawberries. When they&#8217;re open they&#8217;re always busy.<\/p>\n<p>This vacation spot where my brother lives&#8230;the Five Cities&#8230;has a surprising amount of agriculture going on. This is just one of several large and productive fields growing things in the area. It&#8217;s maybe a mile south of Pismo Beach. To our north it&#8217;s wine country. The grape fields are everywhere as far as the eye can see. To our south it&#8217;s all fields of various kinds of fruits and veggies. I pass through orange groves driving here from Barstow.<\/p>\n<p>Driving from Baltimore I pass through vast fields of wheat and corn. Then there is cattle country. It seems like the rest of the dinner table is here in California.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I see the strawberries are in season now&#8230; This is a big strawberry field less than a mile from my brother&#8217;s house. This shot is maybe one-forth of the area of the field. When I arrived last month the strawberries weren&#8217;t ready to harvest.\u00a0They&#8217;ve a little shack on the street corner where you can buy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[289],"class_list":["post-12909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-california-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12911,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12909\/revisions\/12911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}