{"id":12036,"date":"2013-05-06T02:43:08","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T09:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=12036"},"modified":"2013-05-06T02:44:46","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T09:44:46","slug":"book-review-about-vanishing-apricots-in-silicon-valley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/book-review-about-vanishing-apricots-in-silicon-valley\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review About Vanishing Apricots in Silicon Valley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/apribk.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>California Apricots-The Lost Orchards of Silicon Valley<\/strong>&#8221; by Robin Chapman, is a well-written, definitive guide (available at historypress.net) that brings book reviewer, C. MacDonald, &#8220;home&#8221; to the wonderful valley that was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/california-apricots.html\">World&#8217;s Largest Apricot Producer<\/a>. Picked warm from a tree, a California apricot opens into halves as easily as if it came with a dotted line down its center. The fruit carries the scent of citrus and jasmine; and it tastes, some say, like manna from heaven. Robin Chapman recalls \u00a0Santa Clara Valley&#8217;s now lost orchards and relives the long summer days ripe with bumper crops of this much-anticipated delicacy. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/authors\/robin-chapman.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you know?<\/strong> Patterson Apricot Fiesta takes place May 31-June 2, 2013! \u00a0Information coming soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;California Apricots-The Lost Orchards of Silicon Valley&#8221; by Robin Chapman, is a well-written, definitive guide (available at historypress.net) that brings book reviewer, C. MacDonald, &#8220;home&#8221; to the wonderful valley that was the World&#8217;s Largest Apricot Producer. Picked warm from a tree, a California apricot opens into halves as easily as if it came with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12036\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}