{"id":318,"date":"2008-01-19T12:46:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-19T16:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=318"},"modified":"2008-01-19T12:48:16","modified_gmt":"2008-01-19T16:48:16","slug":"mangoes-mangoes-mangoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"Mangoes, Mangoes, Mangoes&#8230;!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>High summer is here with us to stay. This week we had to endure highs around 38 C (100 F) and <em>lows<\/em> of 28 C (82 F).  Add to this a fairly high amount of humidity and imagine what we had to endure (Louisiana residents, and perhaps those of Florida, know what I&#8217;m talking about). The walls are hot, tapwater comes out HOT, and you are drenched in sweat in no time. Thank heavens for air conditioners and swimming pools!<\/p>\n<p>But what really breaks my heart in summer is mangoes. We have two mango trees in our home. They give us wonderful shade&#8230; and tons of fruit. The mango fruit is delicious; but our two trees produce fruits in industrial quantity, enough to feed an army. We enjoy them; but there&#8217;s only so much we can eat, and we must leave the rest just to rot on our yard. How sad! A delicious fruit, rich in fat, sugars, vitamins, minerals, you name it; a fruit that is considered a delicacy everywhere in the world, and Paraguay is producing it in quantities enough to carve a serious dent in the world hunger problem. Right now, Asunci\u00c3\u00b3n is ripe with tons and tons and tons of rotting mangoes. How sad&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But this also remind me of our Lord&#8217;s blessings. Here I am, living in a place where I just must reach my hand if I need something nutritive to eat. A true cornucopia. Thank you, Lord, for your wonderful provision and blessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>High summer is here with us to stay. This week we had to endure highs around 38 C (100 F) and lows of 28 C (82 F). Add to this a fairly high amount of humidity and imagine what we had to endure (Louisiana residents, and perhaps those of Florida, know what I&#8217;m talking about)&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,60,58,51,57],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-food","tag-heat","tag-mango","tag-paraguay","tag-summer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}