{"id":373,"date":"2009-09-08T05:42:47","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T13:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/?p=373"},"modified":"2009-09-08T05:42:47","modified_gmt":"2009-09-08T13:42:47","slug":"watermelon-wine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/2009\/09\/08\/watermelon-wine\/","title":{"rendered":"watermelon wine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It had to happen, sooner or later. Now our pals at the Discovery Channel have &#8220;discovered&#8221; a new source of renewable energy to fuel our lawn mowers, blow dryers, and hifi-wifi laptops. You guessed it &#8211; watermelons.<\/p>\n<p>As studies point out (as rthey always do), <a href=\"http:\/\/dsc.discovery.com\/news\/2009\/08\/26\/watermelon-fuel.html\">&#8220;&#8230;.each year farmers across the country leave between 20 and 40 percent of their crop to rot on the ground. These are the ugly ducklings of the lot; though perfectly fine on the inside, the misshapen or blemished melons simply won&#8217;t sell at the grocery store.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, the logical move is to convert the buggers into ethanol, where it will help quench our endless thirst for all things combustible. Of course, the question could be posed &#8211; why not make potable alcohol out of all that perfectly good produce? Folks will certainly want it then. <\/p>\n<p>What a great way to kick off Voting Day  &#8211; free watermelon wine for everybody! <\/p>\n<p>posted by Mudd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It had to happen, sooner or later. Now our pals at the Discovery Channel have &#8220;discovered&#8221; a new source of renewable energy to fuel our lawn mowers, blow dryers, and hifi-wifi laptops. You guessed it &#8211; watermelons. As studies point out (as rthey always do), &#8220;&#8230;.each year farmers across the country leave between 20 and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":376,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.canyoncountryzephyr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}