{"id":6295,"date":"2012-01-04T10:14:34","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/blog\/?p=6295"},"modified":"2012-01-04T10:14:36","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T17:14:36","slug":"grapples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/?p=6295","title":{"rendered":"Gr\u00c3\u00a4pples"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.villagevoice.com\/forkintheroad\/2012\/01\/behold_the_weir.php\">Village Voice had a piece about the Gr\u00c3\u00a4pple<\/a>, which is funny because they aren&#8217;t exactly new.<\/p>\n<p>When the grapples first appeared a few years ago I thought there might be more flavors on the way&#8230; not yet though!<\/p>\n<p>I speculate what happened was: it&#8217;s about 5+ years ago, and apples are tending to taste the same.  With lame apples, what if we dress them up a bit and make them grape flavored?  The Grapple is born.<\/p>\n<p>But in the next few years, the heirloom apple industry takes off.  Now there is more taste and more apple variety.  The demand for a different-flavored apple is met without injecting weird juice into them.  Thus, the Grapple remains a novelty.<\/p>\n<p>What do you think?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Village Voice had a piece about the Gr\u00c3\u00a4pple, which is funny because they aren&#8217;t exactly new. When the grapples first appeared a few years ago I thought there might be more flavors on the way&#8230; not yet though! I speculate what happened was: it&#8217;s about 5+ years ago, and apples are tending to taste the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stardate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6297,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6295\/revisions\/6297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ikillspies.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}