{"id":241,"date":"2007-04-29T07:03:06","date_gmt":"2007-04-29T07:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=241"},"modified":"2007-04-29T07:06:13","modified_gmt":"2007-04-29T07:06:13","slug":"2007s-first-chilli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=241","title":{"rendered":"2007&#8217;s First Chilli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morninga nd struggled down to get a coffee and noticed that the first flower had dropped off.  Thought &#8220;bugger, the shaking didn&#8217;t work&#8221; as when they don&#8217;t pollenate the flowers just all drop off and get me in trouble for messy bits being all over the window sills. But then I looked more closely, and lo and behold, the first chilli of the year is starting to take shape!<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img id=\"image242\" alt=\"firstchilli2007.JPG\" src=\"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/firstchilli2007.JPG\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s weird how they grow though.  As soon as the flowers are pollenated the ring of petals sort of fall off to leave the long stamen-y thing of the flower attached to the little growing chilli.  That normally falls off sometime a bit later.  Sometimes it doesn&#8217;t. And sometimes the petal ring gets a bit stuck and sticks around the growing chilli like a tu-tu and  I have to go around pulling them off.  Gardener&#8217;s work is never done&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke up this morninga nd struggled down to get a coffee and noticed that the first flower had dropped off. Thought &#8220;bugger, the shaking didn&#8217;t work&#8221; as when they don&#8217;t pollenate the flowers just all drop off and get me in trouble for messy bits being all over the window sills. But then I looked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coffeehouse.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}