{"id":652,"date":"2008-10-13T02:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T02:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=652"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:18:02","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:18:02","slug":"ruby-of-the-pines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=652","title":{"rendered":"Ruby of the pines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/rubies.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256458572310611186\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/rubies-300x200.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\">I think it always bears repeating that there&#8217;s more to NJ than chemical plants and turnpikes; lots of people couldn&#8217;t imagine the 1.1 million acre federally protected, mostly undeveloped preserve that lies between Philly and Atlantic City. If you can&#8217;t believe that there&#8217;s such a place in NJ, a place filled mostly with pitch pines and oaks, with only a few paved roads, then maybe a trip to the Pine Barrens is worth considering. Prepare to be amazed.<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><br \/>What an extraordinary sight: pinkish cranberries floating mid-harvest atop sm<a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_YcXlERVmPdE\/SPK1owf4jpI\/AAAAAAAACEI\/Q1gXdBxlOJo\/s800-h\/whitesbogwatertower.jpg\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5256463426912816786\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/whitesbogwatertower-200x300.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/a>all lakes of blue water, surrounded by nothing but evergreens and oaks, under the bluest of blue autumn skies. Picture perfect, I think.<\/p>\n<p>The cranberry has become one of NJ&#8217;s most important crops and the Pine Barrens are the perfect place for them to be grown commercially; the area has all the essentials for cranberries to flourish: acidic soil, sand, and plentiful unpolluted water.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll ramble on some another day about how those rubies are harvested, but for now I&#8217;m just moved by how pretty some parts of NJ can be.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>(There&#8217;s no turnpike here.)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think it always bears repeating that there&#8217;s more to NJ than chemical plants and turnpikes; lots of people couldn&#8217;t imagine the 1.1 million acre federally protected, mostly undeveloped preserve that lies between Philly and Atlantic City. If you can&#8217;t believe that there&#8217;s such a place in NJ, a place filled mostly with pitch pines &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=652\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ruby of the pines<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}