{"id":49137,"date":"2019-06-22T13:12:45","date_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/?p=49137"},"modified":"2019-06-22T13:12:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-22T17:12:45","slug":"tomato-is-a-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/tomato-is-a-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomato is a Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Down a two lane road<\/p>\n<p>In Southern Alabama<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of seeds are sowed<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Before long the vines break the ground<\/div>\n<div>And the sun and rain goes to work<\/div>\n<div>Soon tiny green fruit is all around<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The little green fruit swells in the heat<\/div>\n<div>And the vines droop with the weight<\/div>\n<div>Of the finest summertime treat<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When the growing stops the fruit turns deep red<\/div>\n<div>And an army of workers will start picking<\/div>\n<div>And across the state folks ready their bread<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>They drive from everywhere, from miles around.<\/div>\n<div>The boxed tomatoes are lined up for sale<\/div>\n<div>And the tiny town of Slocomb is where they are found<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Cars leave loaded with boxes to take back home<\/div>\n<div>Slather the bread in mayo and slice the tomato thin<\/div>\n<div>With pile of potato chips on a plate of styrofoam<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Summer doesn\u2019t start without the southern treat<\/div>\n<div>Of the first mater sandwich of the year<\/div>\n<div>A southern delight that\u2019s hard to beat<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Down a two lane road In Southern Alabama Thousands of seeds are sowed Before long the vines break the ground And the sun and rain goes to work Soon tiny green fruit is all around The little green fruit swells in the heat And the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":857,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/857"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49148,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49137\/revisions\/49148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepoetrymarathon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}