{"id":56,"date":"2001-09-25T20:56:24","date_gmt":"2001-09-26T03:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2001\/09\/25\/56.html"},"modified":"2001-09-25T20:56:24","modified_gmt":"2001-09-26T03:56:24","slug":"immortal-bananas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2001\/09\/25\/immortal-bananas\/","title":{"rendered":"Immortal bananas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There I was at the grocery store.  Figured I'd buy some organic bananas; I do that every couple weeks or so.  They were all green, but I figured they'd ripen in the next couple days.<\/p>\n<p>A week later, they were still solid green.  Someone asked me if they were plantains, but I don't think they are; they're the size and shape of regular bananas.<\/p>\n<p>Another week later, some parts of the skins were gradually beginning to turn  brown&#8212;not the dark brown of a rotten banana, but a rich toasted color like lightly roasted coffee.  Everywhere except the brown areas, the skins were still solid green.<\/p>\n<p><i>Another<\/i> week later, most of the green was gone on two of the four bananas, though none of them had yet shown any signs of turning banana-yellow.  I eventually ate those two; they were just barely ripe.<\/p>\n<p>Today I tried a third one.  It still had a green spot down at the bottom.  It turned out to be nowhere near ripe&#151hard, impossible to peel, with that terrible unripe-banana taste, the equivalent of fingernails on blackboard.<\/p>\n<p>What does it take to ripen a banana these days?  It's coming up on a month since I bought these.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.&nbsp;.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There I was at the grocery store. Figured I&#8217;d buy some organic bananas; I do that every couple weeks or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}