{"id":23485,"date":"2024-12-23T20:22:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T19:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23485"},"modified":"2024-12-23T20:22:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T19:22:20","slug":"you-wont-believe-what-i-thought-was-dark-green-lettuce-until-i-was-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/?p=23485","title":{"rendered":"\u201cYou Won\u2019t Believe What I Thought Was \u2018Dark Green Lettuce\u2019 Until I Was 17!\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDuring a family camping trip, my dad once pulled a prank by sneaking into the woods and placing marshmallows on a bush to make it look like they grew there. It wasn\u2019t until my sister, who later studied horticulture, figured it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a kid, I always thought the saying was \u2018the ghost is clear\u2019 as in transparent, instead of \u2018the coast is clear.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I was little, my mom always served me what she called \u2018dark green lettuce\u2019 as salad, and I loved it. At 17, I had a friend over for dinner, and when I asked my mom for seconds, my friend looked at me strangely and said, \u2018You mean spinach?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cDuring a family camping trip, my dad once pulled a prank by sneaking into the woods and placing marshmallows on a bush to make it look like they grew there. It wasn\u2019t until my sister, who later studied horticulture, figured it out.\u201d \u201cAs a kid, I always thought the saying was \u2018the ghost is clear\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23486,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23485\/revisions\/23486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newzdiscover.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}