{"id":22359,"date":"2017-07-05T09:12:09","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T14:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22359"},"modified":"2017-07-05T09:15:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T14:15:41","slug":"happy-241-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=22359","title":{"rendered":"Happy # 241 America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4240\/35736349805_4d0d371c1b_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>As we shopped Mt. Royal for ears of corn and kebabs I saw a jackfruit. It was the only one in the store and the only one I&#8217;ve ever seen in Minnesota although I can&#8217;t be sure if I&#8217;ve seen them in big warm weather cities with significant populations of SE Asians. I bought it.<\/p>\n<p>Years ago my Filipino friends told me how heavenly jackfruit was and I&#8217;m a sucker for trying exotic fruits. The one I bought may not have been fully ripe and it was tiny for a jackfruit at 15.8 pounds. Fortunately the Internet has helpful jackfruit preparation videos so I learned how to slice it open and get the fruit out. It was a lot like melon but a little sweeter but the fruit has been described as having the texture of calamari. You have to wrest each one out of a thicket of fruit fibers that are said to cook up like a vegetarian pulled pork. We won&#8217;t be trying that but Claudia looked up a recipe for jackfruit preserves so we may give that a go. My daughter wants to cook the big chestnut sized seeds in the fruit into a hummus. <\/p>\n<p>This was a little less orthodox than the game of croquet I set up but memorable in its own way. So too was the Duluth fireworks display. We deemed our grandsons old enough to crawl up on our daughter&#8217;s and son-in-law&#8217;s roof to watch them. I can be dimly made out at the crest of the roof just above the boys. <\/p>\n<p>We could see the Superior Fireworks going off at the same time making it look a little like the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thoughtco.com\/war-of-1812-battle-fort-mchenry-2361371\">Battle of Fort McHenry<\/a>. Oh, say we could see.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c1.staticflickr.com\/5\/4217\/35605064811_7751a3b377_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we shopped Mt. Royal for ears of corn and kebabs I saw a jackfruit. It was the only one in the store and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22359"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22363,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22359\/revisions\/22363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}