{"id":2269,"date":"2011-04-04T05:50:12","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T10:50:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2269"},"modified":"2011-04-04T05:50:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T10:50:12","slug":"first-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2269","title":{"rendered":"First Salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening we ate the first salad from the garden.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to imagine greens (and reds) being sweet until, on an early spring day around the first of April, you harvest lettuce and spinach and endive, wash, toss into a salad bowl, and then eat.\u00a0 Its texture was almost creamy, and the taste, pure sweetness.\u00a0 I&#8217;m pretty sure part of its sweetness is that it came from my own garden.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2271\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_85991.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2271\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2271\" title=\"Sweet, Leafy Treat\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_85991-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_85991-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_85991-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/IMG_85991.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2271\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tossed goodness: the first of a long line<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday evening we ate the first salad from the garden.\u00a0 It&#8217;s hard to imagine greens (and reds) being sweet until, on an early spring day around the first of April, you harvest lettuce and spinach and endive, wash, toss into &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2269\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[69],"tags":[270,70,106,99,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2269"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2275,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2269\/revisions\/2275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}