{"id":6360,"date":"2024-06-27T10:13:28","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T16:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/?p=6360"},"modified":"2024-06-27T10:13:28","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T16:13:28","slug":"unknown-nut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/2024\/06\/27\/unknown-nut\/","title":{"rendered":"Unknown Nut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On a ridge above the lake, on the ground in the shade beneath the canopy the forest at Lake Wappapello State Park in Missouri, there&rsquo;s a green nut lying on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2024\/06\/i-nMVfKrX\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"a nut on the ground\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2024\/06\/i-nMVfKrX\/0\/KmsMnmwM7FK4FKQvDpxsdQQx2ssTfQQ8TQP9pXZ99\/M\/a-fallen-nut-M.jpg\" alt=\"a green, fallen nut on the ground\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;What kind of nut is that?&rdquo; it makes you want to ask.<\/p>\n<p>My grandfather would have known. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what kind of nut that is,&rdquo; he might have said, &#8220;but it sure looks like it fell from a Hickory Tree.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jumpingfish.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2024\/06\/i-wmcczbL\/A\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"leaf of a Hickory Tree\" src=\"https:\/\/photos.smugmug.com\/Blogpix\/2024\/06\/i-wmcczbL\/0\/MkQbP9HT8W9VJKJ6R83RzNXbWNGTLPLr3MJ4M5pmP\/M\/hickory-leaf-M.jpg\" alt=\"a green Hickory leaf against a blue sky\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14px;\"><i>(Paraphrasing a joke he once made).<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a ridge above the lake, on the ground in the shade beneath the canopy the forest at Lake Wappapello State Park in Missouri, there&rsquo;s a green nut lying on the ground. &ldquo;What kind of nut is that?&rdquo; it makes you want to ask. My grandfather would have known. &ldquo;I don&rsquo;t know what kind of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360"}],"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=6360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6361,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6360\/revisions\/6361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/augerhandle.net\/blogs\/jumpingfish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}