{"id":1970,"date":"2010-04-09T07:21:12","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T07:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/riverdogprints.com\/photocardblog\/?p=1970"},"modified":"2015-03-08T16:08:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-08T16:08:16","slug":"peas-please","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/peas-please\/","title":{"rendered":"Peas Please"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pea12.jpg\" alt=\"pea\" title=\"pea\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1976\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/pea-too1.jpg\" alt=\"pea-too\" title=\"pea-too\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1975\" \/>I am excited!<br \/>\nThose are my peas sprouting from the ground!<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf you read this blog regularly (and a big smooch, if you do), I have a food memory of peas that I&#8217;m trying to recreate this year.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nI was probably eight or nine and at our friends&#8217; farm in rural Wisconsin.  It was summertime and the four of us kids would hang by the pea vines and eat ourselves into oblivion.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;ve never had a pea freshly shucked from its shell straight off the vine, you haven&#8217;t tasted the sweetest veg ever.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re wondering if peas are good for you, I can assure you, they are!  Peas are legumes and filled with vitamins, nutrients and fiber.  They have lots of Vitamin K (good for your bones and your blood), folic acid, lots of the B vitamins (good for energy!) and Vitamin C to protect you from those free radicals.  But you really don&#8217;t need to know the specifics to enjoy them and be healthy.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nCross your fingers that I can get them to thrive and feed that little eight-year-old girl inside that&#8217;s yelling, &#8220;Peas please!&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/peas-mosaic11.jpg\" alt=\"peas-mosaic\" title=\"peas-mosaic\" width=\"650\" height=\"520\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1971\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nPhoto Credits:<br \/>\n1. <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/7230557@N03\/2731916824\/\">3 generations shuck peas<\/a>, 2. <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/73217716@N00\/558163570\/\">Perfect Snap Peas<\/a>, 3. <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/13329406@N00\/158633995\/\">Crum Family Farm sugar snaps<\/a>, 4. <a href=\"http:\/\/flickr.com\/photos\/27419051@N00\/2688158610\/\">pea pickin here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am excited! Those are my peas sprouting from the ground! If you read this blog regularly (and a big smooch, if you do), I have a food memory of peas that I&#8217;m trying to recreate this year. I was probably eight or nine and at our friends&#8217; farm in rural Wisconsin. It was summertime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,124,190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-at-home","category-garden","category-health","category-peas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10413,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1970\/revisions\/10413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cynthomas.com\/rdpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}