{"id":1043,"date":"2022-09-11T23:00:14","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T05:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?p=1043"},"modified":"2022-09-11T23:00:14","modified_gmt":"2022-09-12T05:00:14","slug":"glass-gem-corn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?p=1043","title":{"rendered":"Glass Gem Corn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"detail__media__img-highres  js-detail-img  js-detail-img-high\" title=\"https:\/\/149352953.v2.pressablecdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/rainbow-corn-4-300x225.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/external-content.duckduckgo.com\/iu\/?u=https%3A%2F%2F149352953.v2.pressablecdn.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2016%2F05%2Frainbow-corn-4-300x225.jpg&amp;f=1&amp;nofb=1\" alt=\"corn on the cob | Foodiggity\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">corn on the cob | Foodiggity<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On twitter today I saw a tweet about glass gem corn along with a beautiful photograph, which you can see <a href=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/FcVa9QxakAEVWC4?format=jpg&amp;name=large\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tweet says: &#8220;<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Pre-colonization Glass Gem Corn, Indigenous to North America, regrown by a Cherokee farmer in Oklahoma. This particular corn is a mix of ancient Pawnee, Osage and Cherokee varieties.<\/span>&#8221; Native Seeds Search has the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativeseeds.org\/blogs\/blog-news\/the-story-of-glass-gem-corn-beauty-history-and-hope\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The corn is incredibly beautiful. It looks to me to be too beautiful to eat! But you can buy the seeds and grow it yourself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On twitter today I saw a tweet about glass gem corn along with a beautiful photograph, which you can see here. The tweet says: &#8220;Pre-colonization Glass Gem Corn, Indigenous to North America, regrown by a Cherokee farmer in Oklahoma. This &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/?p=1043\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1044,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions\/1044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.margaretmenache.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}