{"id":708,"date":"2009-07-15T12:43:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T16:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/?p=708"},"modified":"2012-12-07T06:59:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-07T11:59:59","slug":"watermelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I sit here, trying to clean the watermelon juice off my keyboard while it&#8217;s dripping down my arms to the elbows, I realize that watermelon is a very descriptive name for a fruit. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a very <em>wet <\/em>melon. I don&#8217;t think I could have come up with a better name for that particular fruit.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me think of oranges, which <em>sound <\/em>like they have a descriptive name, but it&#8217;s actually <em>not<\/em>. After all, if you&#8217;re thinking of a fruit you want to eat, the colour it happens to be is probably not high on your list of criteria, so it&#8217;s not a very useful attribute to describe the fruit or name it after. And of course there&#8217;s the added confusion that not all oranges are orange (with the sudden popularity of blood oranges driving that home).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I sit here, trying to clean the watermelon juice off my keyboard while it&#8217;s dripping down my arms to the elbows, I realize that watermelon is a very descriptive name for a fruit. It&#8217;s a very wet melon. I don&#8217;t think I could have come up with a better name for that particular fruit. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.holypotato.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}