{"id":1608,"date":"2021-08-27T11:22:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-27T11:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1608"},"modified":"2021-08-27T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T11:22:00","slug":"from-the-vines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1608","title":{"rendered":"From the Vines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-082701-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1609\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-082701-1024x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"840\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-082701-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-082701-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-082701-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-082701-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-082701-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-082701-2048x2048.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/pa-2021-2021-082701-1200x1200.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a>Finally getting a break from the blistering heat and the lousy air quality this weekend, if the forecast is accurate \u2014 who knows anymore?<br \/>\nAt any rate, the hops and the grapes need picking, and every year the abundance increases. People are impressed with growing these things here, but they\u2019re not difficult really, the vines create beautiful shade, canopy, privacy and ingredients for lovely libations and more. The bounty becomes overwhelming for our little household and while I make what I can with it \u2014 tinctures, smoke blends, and grape juice, to name a few, there\u2019s so much more that could be done \u2014 beer, wine, jelly, jam, natural dye, pillows, and stuffed grape leaves. Living in a transient community, it\u2019s tough to find makers and takers to share the surplus with. Unless, it\u2019s tomatoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finally getting a break from the blistering heat and the lousy air quality this weekend, if the forecast is accurate \u2014 who knows anymore? At any rate, the hops and the grapes need picking, and every year the abundance increases. People are impressed with growing these things here, but they\u2019re not difficult really, the vines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/?p=1608\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Vines&#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":[624],"tags":[658,659,660],"class_list":["post-1608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-grapes","tag-grapevines","tag-hops"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1608\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artfoodsoul.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}