{"id":11405,"date":"2017-06-11T12:34:13","date_gmt":"2017-06-11T16:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=11405"},"modified":"2017-06-11T12:34:13","modified_gmt":"2017-06-11T16:34:13","slug":"the-ancient-mysterious-history-of-the-watermelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2017\/06\/the-ancient-mysterious-history-of-the-watermelon\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Ancient, Mysterious History of the Watermelon&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watermelon is one of my favorite summer foods (in fact, I love them any time of year!). But they weren&#8217;t always the red and sweet fruit we have today. Here is an interesting story from <em>Food and Wine<\/em> about how watermelons were bred into the delicious fruit that we have today. You can read it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/lifestyle\/ancient-history-watermelon?utm_campaign=foodandwine&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_fw\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1878\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1878\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Watermelons.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1878\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Watermelons-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Watermelons-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Watermelons.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2015\/01\/Watermelons-203x138.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1878\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Steve Evans via Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watermelon is one of my favorite summer foods (in fact, I love them any time of year!). But they weren&#8217;t always the red and sweet fruit we have today. Here is an interesting story from Food and Wine about how watermelons were bred into the delicious fruit that we have today. You can read it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1878,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-fruit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11406,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11405\/revisions\/11406"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}