{"id":629,"date":"2011-09-16T23:09:05","date_gmt":"2011-09-17T05:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/?p=629"},"modified":"2011-09-12T22:59:02","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T04:59:02","slug":"fruits-and-vegetables","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/2011\/09\/16\/fruits-and-vegetables\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruits and Vegetables&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you know me at all, you know that vegetables don&#8217;t exist. Okay, broccoli exists. Stop being a smart&#8230; aleck.\u00a0 But the term &#8220;vegetables&#8221; came from market owners back in the &#8220;ancient&#8221; times. They just wanted a way to better sort out their produce. So &#8220;vegetable&#8221; is not a scientific term and really is just made up of leafs and roots and whatnot.<\/p>\n<p>But what really annoys me are tomatoes. I mean, if you&#8217;re going to relabel a bunch of food, do it consistently. Tomatoes look and act like vegetables, yet we all consider them fruit. They even go in the vegetable section at the store! What&#8217;s more, if a tomato is a fruit then ketchup is a smoothie! I don&#8217;t know about you but tomato smoothies on hamburgers just sound nasty.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #cc99ff\">~Courtney<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you know me at all, you know that vegetables don&#8217;t exist. Okay, broccoli exists. Stop being a smart&#8230; aleck.\u00a0 But the term &#8220;vegetables&#8221; came from market owners back in the &#8220;ancient&#8221; times. They just wanted a way to better sort out their produce. So &#8220;vegetable&#8221; is not a scientific term and really is just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":648,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629\/revisions\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.scottsontherocks.com\/courtney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}