{"id":95,"date":"2005-08-03T10:27:29","date_gmt":"2005-08-03T18:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/2005\/08\/wheat-harvest-biei-town\/"},"modified":"2005-08-03T10:27:29","modified_gmt":"2005-08-03T18:27:29","slug":"wheat-harvest-biei-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/2005\/08\/wheat-harvest-biei-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheat Harvest&#8211;Biei Town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"harvesting-wheat--biei-town.gif\" src=\"http:\/\/careo.elearning.ubc.ca\/weblogs\/watercarrier\/archives\/harvesting-wheat--biei-town.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>My son and I took a short trip this past weekend to a nearby town called Biei, famous for its lavender and patchwork fields. We happened upon a wheat harvester, a gargantuan machine I haven&#8217;t seen in a long time, not since my late teen car drives between Minneapolis and Saint Cloud. It crept along like a bloated praying mantis.<\/p>\n<p>It was hot &amp; humid, threatening to storm, and on a rickety rented bike, we explored as much of the countryside as we could before heading back home for Indian food. Then off to our well-deserved naps, lulled to slumber by the syncopatic chorus of raindrop tap and thunder boom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My son and I took a short trip this past weekend to a nearby town called Biei, famous for its lavender and patchwork fields. We happened upon a wheat harvester, a gargantuan machine I haven&#8217;t seen in a long time, not since my late teen car drives between Minneapolis and Saint Cloud. It crept along [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2795],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-respite"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/watercarrier\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}