{"id":1408,"date":"2013-10-14T16:32:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-14T23:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/?p=1408"},"modified":"2013-10-14T16:32:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-14T23:32:07","slug":"last-tomato-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/last-tomato-summer","title":{"rendered":"The Last Tomato Of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1409\" alt=\"yellow-rose\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_0386-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_0386-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_0386-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_0386-1024x765.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>There is a poem that starts:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;\">&#8216;Tis the last rose of summer,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;\">It has been written about, sung about and sticks in my mind every summer \u2013 but this is Portland and roses are still most everywhere come Fall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;\">[The one shown here is the last one of mine but my neighbors still have roses blooming.]<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;\">This year my lament is for the last tomato of summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;\">I started seeds earlier this year and shared them with my neighbor. It seems every seed germinated! We have had fresh vine-ripened tomatoes all summer.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;\">Breakfast with tomatoes<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1410 alignright\" alt=\"tomatoes\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_0446-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_0446-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_0446-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_0446-1024x765.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;\">Lunch with tomatoes<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;\">Dinner with tomatoes<\/span><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;\">I love the taste of REAL tomatoes!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;\">Recently, my neighbor was ditching his plants and brought me lots of red tomatoes so I can savor them for a bit. And green ones to make something with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;\">And I am left to wonder if my own green, but still growing, tomatoes can last and ripen. But it may not be sunny enough\u2026..<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;\">So for me &#8211; soon &#8211; one tomato &#8217;twill be the last one of summer.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: helvetica; font-size: 14px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is a poem that starts: &#8216;Tis the last rose of summer, It has been written about, sung about and sticks in my mind every summer \u2013 but this is Portland and roses are still most everywhere come Fall. [The one shown here is the last one of mine but my neighbors still have roses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"optin","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[254,253,252,251],"class_list":["post-1408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-ripened-tomatoes","tag-summer","tag-tomato","tag-tomatoes","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/graywolfproductions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}