{"id":5244,"date":"2018-10-07T20:43:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-08T02:43:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=5244"},"modified":"2018-10-07T20:52:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T02:52:51","slug":"acorn-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2018\/10\/07\/acorn-time\/","title":{"rendered":"On Acorns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quercus_macrocarpa\">Burr Oak<\/a>&nbsp;across the street is laden with huge acorns. <em>Quercus Macrocarpa.<\/em> But they are still a bit green. It will take good timing to get a few before they drop. Last year not one of them on the ground was any good. So I&rsquo;ve got my eyes on that tree.<\/p>\n<p>And the acorns are dropping from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Quercus_muehlenbergii\">Chinkapin&nbsp;Oak<\/a>&nbsp;around the corner. <em>Quercus Muehlenbergii.<\/em> Might as well be <em>microcarpa<\/em>, because the acorns are tiny little things, although what they lack in size they make up for in color &mdash; a kind of purplish-brown. I gathered and planted two dozen &mdash; they all passed the float\/sink test.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Acorns make me happy, even when the worms get them, or the squirrels gnaw on the sprouts, and even when they don&rsquo;t germinate at all. Because they just don&rsquo;t care about all the hub and all the bub&#8230; or if they do, they sure don&rsquo;t show it.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Burr Oak&nbsp;across the street is laden with huge acorns. Quercus Macrocarpa. But they are still a bit green. It will take good timing to get a few before they drop. Last year not one of them on the ground was any good. So I&rsquo;ve got my eyes on that tree. And the acorns are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5244"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5248,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5244\/revisions\/5248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}