{"id":1049,"date":"2012-06-10T19:16:46","date_gmt":"2012-06-10T19:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/?p=1049"},"modified":"2012-06-10T19:30:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-10T19:30:54","slug":"gray-day-strawberry-picking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/10\/gray-day-strawberry-picking\/","title":{"rendered":"gray day strawberry picking (with a few sunny spots too)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/120610_.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/120610_2.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nSo many adventures as-of-recent! I am awakening from a long slumber (and hopefully this blog is too).<\/p>\n<p>\nJune begins the fruit picking season. Strawberries are first to ripen, then raspberries, peaches&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/120610_3.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/120610_7.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nI took my little one to the orchard a few days ago. The day was gray with a few sunny spots and <i>so<\/i> perfect for being out in the strawberry fields. I&#8217;m not much of a sun person so when it peaks out from the clouds for brief moments I am most happy. The strawberries were just so red, plump, juicy and warm from their brief encounter with the sun&#8217;s rays. Most of the fields were full of delicate blossoms awaiting to grow into succulent berries.<\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/120610_4.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/120610_5.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sarahblankstudios.com\/images\/blog\/120610_6.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>\nBy the time we left the field we were dappled in strawberry juice from head to toe (little one more so). And as soon as we arrived home I had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marthastewart.com\/336020\/strawberry-cake\">this delicious cake<\/a> baking in the oven. So perfect for early summer, with baked-in strawberries, it&#8217;s a nice change from classic strawberry shortcake.<\/p>\n<p>\nAnd so it begins, onward with all of summer&#8217;s adventures!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So many adventures as-of-recent! I am awakening from a long slumber (and hopefully this blog is too). June begins the fruit picking season. Strawberries are first to ripen, then raspberries, peaches&#8230; I took my little one to the orchard a few days ago. The day was gray with a few sunny spots and so perfect &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/10\/gray-day-strawberry-picking\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;gray day strawberry picking (with a few sunny spots too)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,4,26],"tags":[43,47,45,44,46,42],"class_list":["post-1049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-baking","category-food","category-wanderings","tag-fruit-picking","tag-martha-stewart-strawberry-cake","tag-strawberries","tag-strawberry","tag-strawberry-cake","tag-strawberry-picking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1049"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1070,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1049\/revisions\/1070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sarahblankstudios.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}