{"id":1265,"date":"2014-09-17T02:45:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-17T02:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2014-09-17T02:45:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-17T02:45:28","slug":"kousa-dogwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/?p=1265","title":{"rendered":"Kousa Dogwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/wpid-wp-1410921679683.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/wpid-wp-1410921679683-500x500.jpeg\" alt=\"wpid-wp-1410921679683.jpeg\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1264\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/wpid-wp-1410921679683-500x500.jpeg 500w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/wpid-wp-1410921679683-150x150.jpeg 150w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/wpid-wp-1410921679683-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/wpid-wp-1410921679683-624x624.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I noticed these prickly looking fruit in my parents&#8217; yard a couple days ago &#8212; and after some Googling, it turns out they&#8217;re edible!<\/p>\n<p>Also, they&#8217;re called Kousa or Korean Dogwood. They have beautiful white, cross-shaped flowers during the spring, then these crazy looking fruit in late summer. The fruit reminds me of a mild mango or jackfruit &#8212; definitely the flavor of a summer fruit. <\/p>\n<p>I guess the big caveat is that the tree grows near a road, and has possibly been fertilized&#8230; I suppose I shouldn&#8217;t eat too many. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I noticed these prickly looking fruit in my parents&#8217; yard a couple days ago &#8212; and after some Googling, it turns out they&#8217;re edible! Also, they&#8217;re called Kousa or Korean Dogwood. They have beautiful white, cross-shaped flowers during the spring, then these crazy looking fruit in late summer. The fruit reminds me of a mild [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1265"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1266,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1265\/revisions\/1266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.raccoonstar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}