{"id":45991,"date":"2014-10-19T15:03:03","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T21:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/19\/do-i-dare-to-eat-a-peach.html"},"modified":"2014-11-05T09:55:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T16:55:25","slug":"do-i-dare-to-eat-a-peach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/10\/19\/do-i-dare-to-eat-a-peach.html","title":{"rendered":"Do I dare to eat a peach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A neat article on how humans have changed corn (maize), peaches, and watermelons over thousands of years of selective breeding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p>\n<a style='display:inline;' href='http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/10\/15\/6982053\/selective-breeding-farming-evolution-corn-watermelon-peaches'><br \/>\n<img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/7sAEzpq5sL4IGmUdz2LWRf_Yhv9iUAhFhLXQUAgwesXl6GKL6v3vYfoCZTBnWiBtyI7xdydpWjYXkNLDGm0juBmHRWguCpwuz9CYjXrViRag2H9_oN6GTsstw-O0b-OCzpyYMzQBg1g4gXRUBm7RMTEZkVV_nGlprUHxxqAhK--i7AKn8ww2_iLHZ_2SVkHYyL2nDs0jeHpcdPT6RHZt=w506-h303-p' border='0' \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style='font-size:large;'><a href='http:\/\/www.vox.com\/2014\/10\/15\/6982053\/selective-breeding-farming-evolution-corn-watermelon-peaches'>Here&#8217;s what 9,000 years of breeding has done to corn, peaches, and other crops<\/a><\/span><br \/>\nCorn, watermelon, and peaches were unrecognizable 8,000 years ago.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style='font-size:small;'><a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/cibomvh9mrW'>View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A neat article on how humans have changed corn (maize), peaches, and watermelons over thousands of years of selective breeding. Here&#8217;s what 9,000 years of breeding has done to corn, peaches, and other crops Corn, watermelon, and peaches were unrecognizable 8,000 years ago. 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