{"id":168,"date":"2013-05-20T09:34:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-20T09:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=168"},"modified":"2013-06-03T09:38:05","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T09:38:05","slug":"what-on-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"What on earth&#8230;..?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night we arrived home from a day out to discover these plants in our mailbox:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CIMG6307.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CIMG6307-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"CIMG6307\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-171\" srcset=\"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CIMG6307-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/CIMG6307.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They were packaged up with moss around the roots, waxed paper around that, bound up with an elastic.  I was mystified &#8211; what on earth had we ordered that would result in us being sent live plants?<\/p>\n<p>Any guesses?<\/p>\n<p>Sweet potatoes!  We were astonished &#8211; all the other potatoes have arrived as tubers.  We were even more astonished to have them arrive at the house, because both of us mistakenly believed we&#8217;d taken sweet potatoes off the order list because of their price.  Apparently not, but this is a mistake I&#8217;m more than happy to live with.<\/p>\n<p>This particular variety will produce potatoes that are between 2 -3 pounds if grown properly, and evidently do well in all types of soil, including very poor soil.  Which is good, because we have a habit of benign neglect when it comes to our potatoes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night we arrived home from a day out to discover these plants in our mailbox: They were packaged up with moss around the roots, waxed paper around that, bound up with an elastic. I was mystified &#8211; what on earth had we ordered that would result in us being sent live plants? Any guesses? &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=168\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What on earth&#8230;..?<\/span> <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":{"sharing_disabled":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[10,18,47],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3f8I6-2I","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}