{"id":78,"date":"2007-10-21T01:46:19","date_gmt":"2007-10-21T05:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/tourist\/random-observations-from-china-oranges\/"},"modified":"2007-11-04T06:07:51","modified_gmt":"2007-11-04T10:07:51","slug":"random-observations-from-china-oranges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/tourist\/random-observations-from-china-oranges\/","title":{"rendered":"Random Observations from China: Oranges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re not orange.<\/p>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/res\/images\/China_orange.jpg\" alt=\"Green orange in China\" class=\"center\"\/>\r\n<p>This was a ripe (and pretty tasty) orange. I would have thought it needed a few weeks to ripen (or was actually a lime) but it turns out that oranges in China are often green. I guess that&#8217;s why the Chinese word for the fruit orange (<big>\u00e6\u00a9\u02dc<\/big>) is different than for the color orange (<big>\u00e6\u00a9\u2122<\/big>) although I just noticed that the two characters are pretty similar and both pronounced <i lang='ch'>ju<\/i>.<\/p>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<p>I remembered to get a picture of a cut one so I&#8217;ll stick it here.<\/p>\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/res\/images\/China_orange2.jpg\" alt=\"Green orange in China\" class=\"center\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They&#8217;re not orange. This was a ripe (and pretty tasty) orange. I would have thought it needed a few weeks to ripen (or was actually a lime) but it turns out that oranges in China are often green. I guess that&#8217;s why the Chinese word for the fruit orange (\u00e6\u00a9\u02dc) is different than for the [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[203,204,205,206],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scott.sherrillmix.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}