{"id":194,"date":"2008-07-01T06:44:54","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T10:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2014-05-24T00:06:26","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T00:06:26","slug":"its-all-about-zucchini-and-watermelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/?p=194","title":{"rendered":"Blog: It&#8217;s All About Zucchini (And Watermelon!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was checking out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachaelrayshow.com\/\">Rachael Ray&#8217;s<\/a> website this morning and the food of the week for her New Food Crew\u00a0is&#8230;..Zucchini.\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 Zucchini is the first veggie poem I ever wrote and it remains one of my favorites!\u00a0 It is fun, melodic, and when you are done reading it, you&#8217;ll certainly want to try eating it.\u00a0 Check it out at today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/?cat=1\">poem of the day<\/a>.\u00a0 Why should we care about Zucchini?\u00a0 Because Zucchini is low in calories and packed with folate, potassium and vitamin A. And, it&#8217;s a great time to try this new food because Zucchini flourish in summer.<\/p>\n<p>Another great summertime food is watermelon!\u00a0 Sweet, juicy watermelon is actually packed with some of the most important antioxidants in nature. Watermelon is an excellent source of vitamin C and a very good source of vitamin A, notably through its concentration of beta-carotene. Watermelon is also a very concentrated source of the carotenoid, lycopene.\u00a0Lycopene has been extensively studied for its antioxidant and cancer-preventing properties.\u00a0 And in case you haven&#8217;t heard,\u00a0I am\u00a0reciting my Watermelon poem live on the <a href=\"http:\/\/cw11.trb.com\/news\/local\/morningnews\/\">CW 11 Morning News Show<\/a> this Friday, July 4th.\u00a0 The approximate time is 8:35 a.m.\u00a0 I am so excited to appear with <a href=\"http:\/\/cw11.trb.com\/news\/local\/morningnews\/wpix-ambios03-lindachurch,0,6149369.htmlstory\">Linda Church<\/a>, recite my poem and do a little weather forecasting too!\u00a0 Check it out this Friday and Happy 4th everyone!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I was checking out Rachael Ray&#8217;s website this morning and the food of the week for her New Food Crew\u00a0is&#8230;..Zucchini.\u00a0 Guess what?\u00a0 Zucchini is the first veggie poem I ever wrote and it remains one of my favorites!\u00a0 It&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603,"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/judithnatellimclaughlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}