{"id":1415,"date":"2014-12-23T21:59:18","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T12:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/?p=1415"},"modified":"2014-12-24T16:33:54","modified_gmt":"2014-12-24T07:33:54","slug":"white-eyed-persimmon-dreams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/2014\/12\/23\/white-eyed-persimmon-dreams\/","title":{"rendered":"White-eyed persimmon dreams"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Wow! I’m not the only one that has persimmon dreams!<\/p>\n

These mejiro <\/em>(white-eyes) go crazy when the persimmons’ sugar liquifies and the peels turn translucent and soft.<\/p>\n

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How do I know they’re having persimmon dreams? Man, just look at the way they flit around, how frenetic they are. You<\/em> try taking a picture of one.<\/p>\n

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Every New Year’s Day, Jii-chan would climb the tree beside the cowshed and stick slices of tangerine on bare twigs. . . . A hundred, maybe two hundred, tiny white-eyed, green birds, flitting from limb to limb, would bring the winter tree to life.\u00a0<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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Wow! I’m not the only one that has persimmon dreams! These mejiro (white-eyes) go crazy when the persimmons’ sugar liquifies and the peels turn translucent and soft. \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0   How do I know they’re having persimmon dreams? Man, just look at the way they flit around, how frenetic they are. You try taking a … Continue reading White-eyed persimmon dreams<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1438,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1415\/revisions\/1438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/persimmon-dreams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}