{"id":8426,"date":"2014-08-01T13:00:58","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T19:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"\/nashvillereview\/?p=8426"},"modified":"2015-02-14T14:41:21","modified_gmt":"2015-02-14T20:41:21","slug":"ruby-reds-meri-culp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/archives\/8426","title":{"rendered":"Ruby Reds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The 1929 US Ruby Red (of the Redblush variety) has the first grapefruit patent.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Fat businessmen in gray suits,<br \/>\nstock marketed, crashed too soon,<br \/>\nleap, cash drawers falling,<br \/>\nno net below: 1929.<\/p>\n<p>The same year, in summer\u2019s spin,<br \/>\ntropical storms of Ruby Reds<br \/>\ndrop from green island trees,<br \/>\nrain rush to the patent office: named,<\/p>\n<p>named like the widows and children<br \/>\nof the men who wanted all the fruit,<br \/>\ncertified segments of new life, of death,<br \/>\nof acid pink juice, crisp paper.<\/p>\n<p>The cut is in the edge, the tall storied building,<br \/>\nthe plated half of bitterness, the teeth of a serrated spoon,<br \/>\nself-serving plunge, silver-tongued pull,<br \/>\nunsweetened dreams: pink flesh, detached.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"\/nashvillereview\/archives\/8216\">Meri Culp<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 1929 US Ruby Red (of the Redblush variety) has the first grapefruit patent. Fat businessmen in gray suits, stock marketed, crashed too soon, leap, cash drawers falling, no net below: 1929. The same year, in summer\u2019s spin, tropical storms of Ruby Reds drop from green island trees, rain rush to the patent office: named, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[25],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Jypy-2bU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8426"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10180,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8426\/revisions\/10180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp0.vanderbilt.edu\/nashvillereview\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}