{"id":288,"date":"2010-03-03T20:15:18","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T04:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/?p=288"},"modified":"2010-03-03T20:15:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T04:15:18","slug":"dont-mess-with-the-lemon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/03\/dont-mess-with-the-lemon\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t Mess With The Lemon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Cherry Blossoms\" src=\"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/3\/cherryclose.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"287\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">What? It&#39;s only March 3?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The cherry is in bloom.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"cherry blossoms\" src=\"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/3\/cherry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"287\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">I thought it was April<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The daffodils are up, but looking sheepish, like an alarm woke them up early and now, here they are, squinting into the sunlight.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Daffodil\" src=\"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/3\/daff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"324\" height=\"487\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">What time is it?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is the toughest time of the year for the Meyer lemon. Right about now he\u2019s (yes he is a he and yes he is a diva) pretty pissed about this winter business. He\u2019s dropped most of his leaves and he\u2019s waging a fierce battle against spider mites. I\u2019m tempted to put him outside, but if it freezes again he\u2019ll start throwing spikes. Bet you didn\u2019t know a lemon could grow thorns. I think it happens when the new green growth is arrested by cold. They\u2019re not really thorns, but the effect is the same. It makes for one very angry-looking lemon.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 442px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"meyer lemon in winter\" src=\"http:\/\/katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/3\/lemon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"432\" height=\"287\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Just plain sad<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cherry is in bloom. The daffodils are up, but looking sheepish, like an alarm woke them up early and now, here they are, squinting into the sunlight. This is the toughest time of the year for the Meyer lemon. Right about now he\u2019s (yes he is a he and yes he is a diva) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":292,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288\/revisions\/292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.katherinemalmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}