{"id":13627,"date":"2018-04-18T07:07:55","date_gmt":"2018-04-18T12:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.superrachelzana.com\/blog\/?p=13627"},"modified":"2018-04-18T07:07:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-18T12:07:55","slug":"purchasing-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/?p=13627","title":{"rendered":"Purchasing Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When I walk up to the checkout counter at the grocery store with FIVE tote bags of bananas, in fact, ALL the tote bags of bananas available for purchase at the store, they look at me skeptically. \u00a0\u201cAre you doing a great deal of baking this week?\u201d \u00a0They say.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy, no! \u00a0My children will have eaten all these in 36 hours or less,\u201d is how I reply inside my head. \u00a0Outwardly I just smile. \u00a0I haven\u2019t baked anything with a banana for many, many months, because there are never any truly ripe bananas around here. \u00a0Even those \u201cbakers\u201d bananas at the store, which are perfectly ripe on purchase, never get overripe because they are immediately consumed.<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I live in a house of fruit monsters. \u00a0Every week I purchase at least 5 bags of apples, and they are gone. \u00a0Yesterday they ate 3 tote bags of bananas in a matter of five hours, the kind the store sells for people to bake banana bread. When I walk up to the checkout counter at the grocery store with FIVE tote bags of bananas, in fact, ALL the tote bags of bananas available for purchase at the store, they look at me skeptically. \u00a0\u201cAre you doing a great deal of baking this week?\u201d \u00a0They say. \u201cWhy, no! \u00a0My children will have eaten all these in 36 hours or less,\u201d is how I reply inside my head. \u00a0Outwardly I just smile. \u00a0I haven\u2019t baked anything with a banana for many, many months, because there are never any truly ripe bananas around here. \u00a0Even those \u201cbakers\u201d bananas at the store, which are perfectly ripe on purchase, never get overripe because they are immediately consumed.<\/p>\n","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-13627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13627"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13646,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13627\/revisions\/13646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/superrachelzana.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}