{"id":36162,"date":"2017-07-14T09:58:04","date_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/?p=36162"},"modified":"2017-07-14T09:58:04","modified_gmt":"2017-07-14T13:58:04","slug":"pitaya-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/pitaya-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitaya Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went into the garden this morning to get one Puppy’s toys, when I was stopped dead in my track by something pink hanging from one of my cacti:<\/p>\n

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Yes, that’s a pitaya\/dragonfruit!!!<\/p>\n

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I did some research and determined that it was ripe for picking!<\/p>\n

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So pretty! I was surprised by the hard “rib” across the middle of the fruit (like a very stiff grapefruit segment), giving it two hemispheres.<\/p>\n

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It was so delicious!!! So THIS is what pitaya is supposed to taste like! I always found it a very bland, but refreshing fruit, one that is prettier than it tastes. But this one had so much flavour. I was reminded of the time during one of my Klondike summers that I had a fresh picked cantaloupe.<\/p>\n

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I’m seeing other fruit emerging from other plants and will keep a closer eye on the garden for more treasures!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went into the garden this morning to get one Puppy’s toys, when I was stopped dead in my track by something pink hanging from one of my cacti: Yes, that’s a pitaya\/dragonfruit!!! I did some research and determined that it was ripe for picking! So pretty! I was surprised by the hard “rib” across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,635,1650,3,894],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico","category-north-america","category-progresochelemchuburna","category-travel","category-yucatan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36172,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36162\/revisions\/36172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raecrothers.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}