{"id":5839,"date":"2010-03-20T18:21:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T18:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fadingad.wordpress.com\/?p=5839"},"modified":"2010-03-20T18:21:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T18:21:11","slug":"im-just-mad-about-saffron-crocus-flatbush-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/2010\/03\/20\/im-just-mad-about-saffron-crocus-flatbush-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#039;m Just Mad About Saffron Crocus &#8211; Flatbush, Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/brooklyn\/flatbush\/flatbush_crocus_2010-03.jpg?resize=500%2C335\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"335\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fadingad.com\/blog\/brooklyn\/flatbush\/flatbush_crocuses_2010.jpg?resize=500%2C747\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"747\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Frank H. Jump<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify;\"><strong>Saffron<\/strong> (pronounced \/\u02c8s\u00e6fr\u0259n\/) is a spice  derived from the flower of the <strong>saffron crocus<\/strong> (<em>Crocus sativus<\/em>),  a species of crocus in the Iridaceae.  A <em>C. sativus<\/em> flower bears three stigmas,  each the distal end of a carpel. Together with their styles\u2014stalks connecting stigmas to  their host plant\u2014stigmas are dried and used in cooking as a seasoning  and colouring agent. Saffron, long the world&#8217;s most expensive spice by  weight, is native to Southwest Asia. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saffron\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><sup><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saffron#cite_note-Grigg_287-2\"><\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saffron (pronounced \/\u02c8s\u00e6fr\u0259n\/) is a spice derived from the flower of the saffron crocus (Crocus sativus), a species of crocus in the Iridaceae. A C. sativus flower bears three stigmas, each the distal end of a carpel. Together with their styles\u2014stalks connecting stigmas to their host plant\u2014stigmas are dried and used in cooking as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[384,551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crocus","category-flatbush"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pXBbJ-1wb","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fadingad.com\/fadingadblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}