{"id":185,"date":"2008-06-25T15:52:46","date_gmt":"2008-06-25T23:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driph.com\/words\/?p=185"},"modified":"2008-06-25T15:56:48","modified_gmt":"2008-06-25T23:56:48","slug":"eat-a-delicious-mangosteen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/2008\/06\/eat-a-delicious-mangosteen\/","title":{"rendered":"Eat a delicious mangosteen."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Relatively unavailable in the US until recently, we first tasted the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mangosteen\">mangosteen<\/a> while in the Vietnam countryside, and I&#8217;ve been keeping an eye out for the things ever since. With its thick pomegranate-like shell, a meaty interior resembling an orange crossed with a peeled grape, and a unique <em>sweet with a touch of sour<\/em> taste, the mangosteen would sit near the top of my favorite fruits list, were I to compile a list of favorite fruits.<\/p>\n<p>At long last, the local <a href=\"http:\/\/www.99ranch.com\/\">99 Ranch<\/a> received a shipment (selling for $6.99\/lb), and I snatched up a couple pounds worth last night. <em>Damn<\/em> these things are good.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3234\/2611120507_08cb5b3635.jpg\" width=\"374\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Mangosteen\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Forget the <a href=\"http:\/\/altmedicine.about.com\/od\/completeazindex\/a\/mangosteen1.htm\">miracle fruit<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/tinyurl.com\/6x5zgf\">nonsense<\/a>, as you wouldn&#8217;t be eating the rind anyway and the nutritional content of the meat really isn&#8217;t anything special, but do dine on one if given the chance.<\/p>\n<p>And, in preparation for that potential partaking: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mangosteen.com\/Enjoyingthemangosteen.htm\">how to enjoy a mangosteen<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relatively unavailable in the US until recently, we first tasted the mangosteen while in the Vietnam countryside, and I&#8217;ve been keeping an eye out for the things ever since. With its thick pomegranate-like shell, a meaty interior resembling an orange crossed with a peeled grape, and a unique sweet with a touch of sour taste, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crap-i-buy","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driph.com\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}