{"id":175,"date":"2011-08-15T11:09:24","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T15:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/?p=175"},"modified":"2011-08-21T12:58:16","modified_gmt":"2011-08-21T16:58:16","slug":"osage-orange-for-anyone-curious-about-farrier-use-of-hedgeapples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/osage-orange-for-anyone-curious-about-farrier-use-of-hedgeapples\/","title":{"rendered":"Osage Orange &#8211; for anyone curious about farrier use of Hedgeapples"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_176\" style=\"width: 181px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hedgeapple.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-176\" title=\"The hedgeapple\" src=\"http:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/hedgeapple.jpg\" alt=\"farrierly trivia\" width=\"171\" height=\"208\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-176\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The fruit of the Osage Orange tree.  Image from www.hedgeapple.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jerry Pennington caught me off guard when he told me the handle of the knife he made came from\u00a0the wood of a\u00a0hedgeapple tree (Osage Orange). I&#8217;ve seen hedgeapples in my life so I knew what he was referring to, but I never gave any thought to the possible uses for the fruit or even less the wood. I always thought of them as interesting and something to be careful not to step on,\u00a0but not so useful.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently I should have done some research. After posting the info about Jerry&#8217;s knife, I thought there might be some questions to be answered. Knowing I likely wouldn&#8217;t have the answers, I searched the web.\u00a0As expected, the answers are out there. One site in particular\u00a0might answer all the questions you ever had about the hedgeapple, and then some.\u00a0Visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeapple.com\/\">www.hedgeapple.com<\/a>\u00a0 for great trivia- no doubt you&#8217;ll be able to impress your friends with the info.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Pennington caught me off guard when he told me the handle of the knife he made came from\u00a0the wood of a\u00a0hedgeapple tree (Osage Orange). I&#8217;ve seen hedgeapples in my life so I knew what he was referring to, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/osage-orange-for-anyone-curious-about-farrier-use-of-hedgeapples\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,9],"tags":[28,31],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.farrierproducts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}