{"id":526,"date":"2012-08-20T21:23:34","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T21:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/?p=526"},"modified":"2019-02-11T20:48:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T20:48:47","slug":"the-annual-ersten-tomaten-essen-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/the-annual-ersten-tomaten-essen-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"the annual Ersten Tomaten Essen ritual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/erste_tomaten.jpg\" alt=\"Erste Tomaten\" class=\"wp-image-527\" width=\"337\" height=\"235\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">today was the day for the annual Ersten\nTomaten Ritual: the ripest tomatoes were gently &amp; ceremoniously\npicked from the stem, sniffed, then respectfully eaten and pronounced\nwarm und lecker!<br>\n<br>\nthis year we have a lot more plants than\nprevious years, because we grew them from seed &amp; didn&#8217;t expect\nevery single seed to germinate &#8211; but they did! we gave away quite a\nfew, but still have 15 plants, which is really too many for our\nmodest balcony (especially as we also have lettuce, rucola, parsley,\nnasturtiums, chives, lavender, rosemary, oregano, &amp; a variety of\nother flowers that are frequented daily by a variety of bees). we had\nto let some tomato plants go rampant amongst other plants since we\ndidn&#8217;t have enough stakes for them all, &amp; there are a few that\nare not so healthy looking &#8211; but still with lots of fruit.<br>\n<br>\nit&#8217;s\nbeen a wet summer in munich &#8211; actually i am coming to understand that\nsummer, july in particular, is normally pretty wet; hot days build up\nto drenching thunderstorms. the micro-climate of our balcony lurches\nfrom extreme heat to rather cold &amp; windy, which isn&#8217;t ideal for\nthe tomatoes &#8211; they are either drowning or wilting. but we have a LOT\nof small fruit on the plants, &amp; if the current hot sunny days\nhold up a bit longer, it should all ripen. \n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>today was the day for the annual Ersten Tomaten Ritual: the ripest tomatoes were gently &amp; ceremoniously picked from the stem, sniffed, then respectfully eaten<span class=\"read-more-link\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/the-annual-ersten-tomaten-essen-ritual\/\">Read More<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":528,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526\/revisions\/528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.creative-catalyst.com\/expect\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}