{"id":1871,"date":"2008-11-21T23:28:55","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T04:28:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2010-03-25T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-26T00:44:00","slug":"beech-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"Beech nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wound up walking past the fast food joint at the corner of Elm and County. No, I didn&#8217;t go in to the fast food joint &#8212; even though I crave fatty food with the onset of cold weather, I&#8217;ve sworn off fast food for a while because of what it does to my digestive system (you don&#8217;t want to know). I walked under the old beech tree that grows along Elm Street across from the fast food joint, a big old tree that somehow survived the decline of the neighborhood. Its branches spread out over the sidewalk, and the sidewalk was almost entirely covered in beech nut shells. A fat Eastern Gray Squirrel idly hopped towards the tree, just out of my reach, keeping a weather on me the whole time. I thought, That&#8217;s what I should be doing for fatty food instead of fast food hamburger products, I should be eating nuts.<\/p>\n<p>But then when I was in the supermarket tonight, I forgot to buy a jar of nuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I wound up walking past the fast food joint at the corner of Elm and County. No, I didn&#8217;t go in to the fast food joint &#8212; even though I crave fatty food with the onset of cold weather, I&#8217;ve sworn off fast food for a while because of what it does to my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[508,304],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autumn-watch","tag-squirrel","tag-urban-ecosystem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6692,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions\/6692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.danielharper.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}