{"id":1441,"date":"2014-06-26T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-26T07:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1441"},"modified":"2014-06-26T00:17:56","modified_gmt":"2014-06-26T07:17:56","slug":"the-time-of-impatient-waiting-is-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"The Time of Impatient Waiting is Over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berry season has begun. The blackcaps* and best of all the thimbleberries\u2020 are ripening everywhere. Salmonberries have been ripe for several weeks now, but they don&#8217;t have the flavor of our other berries.<\/p>\n<p>The wide variety of edible berries are one of the things I like best about this region. Many parts of the country are lucky to have one or two good wild edible berries. I can offhand think of nine types of native edible berries found on this island alone (so I&#8217;m probably overlooking a few), plus a couple of common introduced species.<\/p>\n<p>* My namesake; I chose it because the species of blackcap they have in the Midwest is probably the first wild food I remember eating.<\/p>\n<p>\u2020 A flavor, which together with the thoroughly non-native durian, I probably crave more than any other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Berry season has begun. The blackcaps* and best of all the thimbleberries\u2020 are ripening everywhere. Salmonberries have been ripe for several weeks now, but they don&#8217;t have the flavor of our other berries. The wide variety of edible berries are one of the things I like best about this region. Many parts of the country [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcap.name\/blog\/new\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}