{"id":208,"date":"2007-09-06T21:04:53","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T05:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=208"},"modified":"2007-09-08T10:28:44","modified_gmt":"2007-09-08T18:28:44","slug":"berry-abundant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/?p=208","title":{"rendered":"Berry abundant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/inthepocket.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/RealAudio\/EvensongAscendit.m3u\" style=\"text-decoration:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/mscblue.jpg\"\"alt=\"listen\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;listen<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/EvensongSuitepg1s.html\" style=\"text-decoration:none\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/moregn.jpg\"\/><font color=#4F4E81>&#8230;about the music<\/font><\/a><br \/>\n<em><i><font color=#346513>A berry happy ascent.<\/font><\/i><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Driving around in recent weeks, it&#8217;s been common to see people standing with their backs to the side of the road, poised in odd positions. Stretched. Squatting. Contorted in some game of imaginary Twister&#8230; all in pursuit of the most amazing blackberries imaginable. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/blogpix\/berries.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>They are everywhere I look and in places I haven&#8217;t looked yet. Each time I leave the house I stumble upon another cache of this divine vine. The deer know where the stash is, too, and I&#8217;ve returned to formerly lush thickets that have been devoured between my first visit and my next. I never thought I&#8217;d be competing in the wild with animals, but hey, my survivalist instincts are coming out now and it&#8217;s an earnest game to see who can find the ripest and still-untouched bramble, and not be too scarred by the thorns for their effort.<\/p>\n<p>Above is a group I&#8217;m keeping my eye on. I&#8217;m ready to jostle the neighborhood buck out of position at any moment, and pounce the second they ripen. I should have had a close-up photo for you of an overflowing handful of the drippingly sweet delicacies I&#8217;ve been picking each time I take a walk. But I ate them all. Every last one. Yum yum yum. Selfish, selfish, selfish. Ahhhhhh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alexshapiro.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}