{"id":619,"date":"2011-09-07T22:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-08T08:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/?p=619"},"modified":"2011-09-07T22:15:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-08T08:15:00","slug":"i-hereby-devote-my-life-to-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2011\/09\/07\/i-hereby-devote-my-life-to-corn\/","title":{"rendered":"I Hereby Devote My Life To Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And that ain&#8217;t no lie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;d never et corn in the raw until a fellow raw-foodist in Hawaii showed me the light. Unfortunately, there was only one good place in Hilo at which to procure the high-quality corn &#8212; and it <em>wasn&#8217;t<\/em> the Farmers&#8217; Market.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So, had to wait, to <em>really<\/em> get the corngroove going on, until returning to the mainland. And then, it wasn&#8217;t in season. So had to wait until returning from Montana. Since when, I&#8217;ve been <em>devouring<\/em> the corn. Just frickin&#8217; <em>wolfing<\/em> it down. I&#8217;m talking, like, twenty cobs&#8217; worth per <em>week<\/em>, brothers and sisters!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In case you&#8217;re skeptical, know this: I&#8217;ve an Uncle who at first had been of the opinion that raw corn sounded like the nastiest item one could possibly put into one&#8217;s mouth. Totally inedible, hethunk. Well, morbid curiosity (or maybe it was fate) convinced him to try a bit of it. His reaction: &#8220;My, my, my!&#8221; And now it&#8217;s <em>his <\/em>favourite, too, god dammit!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">One farmer from whom I buy it says only a few weeks left. So, get it while you can, god dammit.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_620\" style=\"width: 2058px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/corn.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-620\" class=\"size-full wp-image-620\" title=\"corn\" src=\"http:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/corn.jpg\" alt=\"corn\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/corn.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/corn-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/09\/corn-500x332.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-620\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My, my, my!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that ain&#8217;t no lie. I&#8217;d never et corn in the raw until a fellow raw-foodist in Hawaii showed me the light. Unfortunately, there was only one good place in Hilo at which to procure the high-quality corn &#8212; and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/2011\/09\/07\/i-hereby-devote-my-life-to-corn\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fruit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/durianapocalypse.net\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}