{"id":5751,"date":"2019-06-29T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2019-06-29T16:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/?p=5751"},"modified":"2019-06-29T17:09:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T16:09:08","slug":"watch-out-durians-are-in-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2019\/06\/29\/watch-out-durians-are-in-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out! Durians are in season!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5758\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-durian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5758\" class=\"wp-image-5758 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-durian.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-durian.jpg 450w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-durian-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This durian reminds me of the puppy who sits at the very edge of the boundary you set &#8211; not in and not out!<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-durian1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5759\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-durian1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-durian1.jpg 337w, http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2019\/06\/blog-durian1-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Seriously, you do not want to be under a durian tree at this time of year!\u00a0 Aside from the attack on your sense of smell, you do not want to get bonked on the head by one of these spiny, heavy fruits.\u00a0 Roy, of course, is absolutely loving this time, eating a durian each day, sometimes with friends, sometimes all by himself.\u00a0 He discovered that if he eats a bite of plain cookie with a bite of durian, it\u2019s like durian pie.\u00a0 He knows he might never have a durian pie baked by his wife, even after 46 years of loving marriage.\u00a0 A person has to draw the line somewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-report-this\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth?moderation_action=report_form&object_type=post&object_id=5751&width=250&height=300\" class=\"thickbox\" title=\"Report This Post\">Report This Post<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, you do not want to be under a durian tree at this time of year!\u00a0 Aside from the attack on your sense of smell, you do not want to get bonked on the head by one of these spiny, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.covchurch.org\/danforth\/2019\/06\/29\/watch-out-durians-are-in-season\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[339,336],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cefa","category-fun"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Watch out! 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