{"id":9653,"date":"2025-03-21T11:54:19","date_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/?p=9653"},"modified":"2025-03-21T11:55:24","modified_gmt":"2025-03-21T15:55:24","slug":"gretchen-measuring-banana-leaves-2025-03-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/gretchen-measuring-banana-leaves-2025-03-19.html","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen measuring banana leaves 2025-03-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\r\nA few days before, Gretchen whacked off the tops of these banana plants with a machete.\r\nShe says this is necessary after they freeze in the winter.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"At least a foot\" name=\"GM:At-least-a-foot\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2025-03-19--gretchen-measuring-bananas\/20250319_122411.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2025-03-19--gretchen-measuring-bananas\/20250319_122411.jpg\"  alt=\"[At least a foot]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2025-03-19--gretchen-measuring-bananas\/20250319_122411.html\">At least a foot<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nThat leaf measured a foot of growth.\r\n<p style=\"text-align:center;font-size:80%;font-style:italic\">\r\n<a title=\"Sproing\" name=\"GM:Sproing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2025-03-19--gretchen-measuring-bananas\/20250319_122417.html\">\r\n<img decoding=\"async\"  width=\"600\"  border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2025-03-19--gretchen-measuring-bananas\/20250319_122417.jpg\"  alt=\"[Sproing]\"><\/a>\r\n<br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/pictures\/2025-03-19--gretchen-measuring-bananas\/20250319_122417.html\">Sproing<\/a>\r\n<\/p>\r\n<p>\r\nRiver and Blondie assisted. -jsq","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few days before, Gretchen whacked off the tops of these banana plants with a machete. She says this is necessary after they freeze in the winter. At least a foot That leaf measured a foot of growth. Sproing River and Blondie assisted. -jsq","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3051,29,6,144],"tags":[3529,2669,3233,3,23,5,2,2760,2810,2803,3530],"class_list":["post-9653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banana","category-dogs","category-okra-paradise-farms","category-weather","tag-banana-leaves","tag-bananas","tag-blondie","tag-georgia","tag-gretchen-quarterman","tag-john-s-quarterman","tag-lowndes-county","tag-okra-paradise-farms","tag-river","tag-weather","tag-winter-freeze"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Gj0O-2vH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9653"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9655,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9653\/revisions\/9655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.okraparadisefarms.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}