{"id":1910,"date":"2009-01-08T09:32:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T17:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.com\/wordpress\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2009-01-08T09:32:07","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T17:32:07","slug":"apple-9-braeburn-from-rancho-royale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/apple-9-braeburn-from-rancho-royale\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple #9 Braeburn from Rancho Royale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My 9th apple of the year hails from eastern Washington from a farm called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacorg.com\/pages\/royale.html\">Rancho Royale<\/a>. The grower Less Hollowell went all the way to New Zealand where the Braeburn apple originates to learn about the art of growing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangepippin.com\/apples\/braeburn.aspx\">Braeburns<\/a>. I learned that Braeburns were one of the first commercial &#8220;bi-colored&#8221; varieties.<br \/>\nFrom <a href=\"http:\/\/www.orangepippin.com\/apples\/braeburn.aspx\">OrangePippin.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This combination of modern colouring and flavour means that Braeburn was effectively the first of the new-wave of modern apple varieties.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I guess this means my apple is on par with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Immanual_Kant\">Immanuel Kant<\/a>. I am eating a piece of apple history. Wonder what a postmodern apple would be. Maybe it would be a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pyrus_pyrifolia\">pear<\/a> that looked and tasted like an apple.<\/p>\n<p>The phenomenological experience I had with my apple this morning was of a pleasant, soft, tangy flesh with a tender skin. It had a strange aftertaste I couldn&#8217;t quite place but it added an extra element that I quite enjoyed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/angrypirate\/3178230747\/\" title=\"braeburn by Alanna Risse, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3468\/3178230747_3a271dbfcd.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"360\" alt=\"braeburn\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My 9th apple of the year hails from eastern Washington from a farm called Rancho Royale. The grower Less Hollowell went all the way to New Zealand where the Braeburn apple originates to learn about the art of growing Braeburns. I learned that Braeburns were one of the first commercial &#8220;bi-colored&#8221; varieties. From OrangePippin.com: This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}