{"id":84,"date":"2026-06-22T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T13:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/?p=84"},"modified":"2026-06-18T14:49:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T13:49:31","slug":"potatoes-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/potatoes-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Potatoes 10."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll carry on regardless of the outrageous smears about our devotion to potatoes.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a close-up of the flower buds\u00a0 on the plants.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_81\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-81\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-81 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/13-06-flowers.jpg\" alt=\"Close up of the flower buds on one of the potato plants\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1333\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-81\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The flower buds. When will they open?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to an article in Smithsonian magazine &#8211; https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/the-potato-may-have-evolved-from-a-tomato-ancestor-nine-million-years-ago-genetic-study-suggests-180987091\/<\/p>\n<p>The potato plant probably evolved from tomato plans about 9 million years ago. That is todays fascinating potato fact.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll carry on regardless of the outrageous smears about our devotion to potatoes. Here is a close-up of the flower buds\u00a0 on the plants. According to an article in Smithsonian magazine &#8211; https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/the-potato-may-have-evolved-from-a-tomato-ancestor-nine-million-years-ago-genetic-study-suggests-180987091\/ The potato plant probably evolved from tomato plans about 9 million years ago. That is todays fascinating potato fact. &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}