{"id":5499,"date":"2015-03-14T21:42:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T04:42:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/14\/first-spring-lemon-blossoms\/"},"modified":"2015-03-14T21:42:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-15T04:42:44","slug":"first-spring-lemon-blossoms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2015\/03\/14\/first-spring-lemon-blossoms\/","title":{"rendered":"First Spring Lemon Blossoms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lemon-blossoms.jpg' title='Lemon Blossoms'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/lemon-blossoms.jpg' alt='Lemon Blossoms' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We spotted our first spring lemon blossoms on the tree in our &#8220;orchard.&#8221; This little flower was one of several making an appearance on the little lemon tree today. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, we had a bumper crop of lemons, most of which were harvested and used to produce our <a href=\"http:\/\/reynosawatch.org\/minstrel\/2014\/12\/03\/finished-product-limoncello\/\">homemade Limoncello<\/a>. We still have a lot of the bottles that we need to ship out to family and friends. We have given several bottles to friends here in town, but there are a lot of bottles left over.<\/p>\n<p>As fall approaches, we expect many more lemons to appear on this tree. This year, we plan on using the skins for Limoncello and freeze the juice in ice cube trays to then store in bags in the freezer until we need lemon juice for cooking or lemonade, whatever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spotted our first spring lemon blossoms on the tree in our &#8220;orchard.&#8221; This little flower was one of several making an appearance on the little&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,15,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-food-and-dining","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}