{"id":1753,"date":"2009-07-01T15:49:59","date_gmt":"2009-07-01T22:49:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1753"},"modified":"2009-07-01T15:49:59","modified_gmt":"2009-07-01T22:49:59","slug":"other_matters_out_in_the_count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/07\/other_matters_out_in_the_count\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Matters: Out In The Country"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If all of July is like this, I&#8217;ll be a happy cyclist. My Italian friend Vigorelli Bianchi and I did<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/03\/Bianchi-thumb-133x80-4140.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thumbnail image for Bianchi.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/03\/Bianchi-thumb-133x80-4140-thumb-133x80-4141.jpg\" width=\"133\" height=\"80\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span> 22 morning miles. The air and light had a crystalline quality more usual In October than summer. The cherry crop looks splendid, <span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/7485-Cherries.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"7485-Cherries.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/7485-Cherries-thumb-200x133-8244.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;\" \/><\/a><\/span>loading the trees so heavily that in places the branches bowed  low near enough to the road that I could almost have plucked the fruit as I rode by. This is the stage at which cherry growers pray for no rain.<br \/>\nThinners are in the apple trees making room for the fall fruit to develop. Th<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/thinning%20apples.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"thinning apples.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/assets_c\/2009\/07\/thinning apples-thumb-106x78-8246.jpg\" width=\"106\" height=\"78\" class=\"mt-image-right\" style=\"float: right; margin: 0 0 20px 20px;\" \/><\/a><\/span>e orchards have all the earmarks of a bumper apple crop.<br \/>\nFruit workers waved and smiled as I passed, approaching motorists nodded and lifted fingers from their steering wheels in greeting, dogs barked more out of a sense of duty than intent to pursue, and not one pickup truck tried to run me into the ditch. It was one of those rides when I felt stronger at the end than the beginning. It was great out there.<br \/>\nI had to tell someone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If all of July is like this, I&#8217;ll be a happy cyclist. My Italian friend Vigorelli Bianchi and I did 22 morning miles. The air and light had a crystalline quality more usual In October than summer. The cherry crop looks splendid, loading the trees so heavily that in places the branches bowed low near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}