{"id":90137,"date":"2024-09-16T15:04:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T08:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/?p=90137"},"modified":"2025-02-14T16:52:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T09:52:11","slug":"i-was-cutting-my-watermelon-and-was-confused-when-i-saw-these-hard-stems-in-it-does-anyone-know-what-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/i-was-cutting-my-watermelon-and-was-confused-when-i-saw-these-hard-stems-in-it-does-anyone-know-what-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"I was cutting my watermelon and was confused when I saw these hard stems in it, does anyone know what it is?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style='\"font-size:' color:>I was cutting my watermelon and was confused when I saw these hard stems in it, does anyone know what it is?\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><img fetchpriority='\"high\"' decoding='\"async\"' class='\"aligncenter' size-full wp-image-113047 src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/thefinejournal.com%5C/wp-content%5C/uploads%5C/2024%5C/09%5C/I-was-cutting-my-watermelon-and-was-confused-when-I-saw-these-hard-stems-in-it-does-anyone-know-what-it-is.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"\"' width='\"728\"' height='\"970\"' srcset='\"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/I-was-cutting-my-watermelon-and-was-confused-when-I-saw-these-hard-stems-in-it-does-anyone-know-what-it-is.jpg' https: sizes='\"(max-width:'>\n<p><span style='\"font-size:'><b>Answer: That happens when it is stressed during growing. Likely due to drought, the fruit got messed up inside. It\u2019s technically edible, but likely doesn\u2019t taste very good.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</b><p>I was cutting my watermelon and was confused when I saw these hard stems in it, does anyone know what it is? Answer: That happens when it is stressed during growing. Likely due to drought, the fruit got messed up inside. It\u2019s technically edible, but likely doesn\u2019t taste very good.\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":113047,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,670],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-90137","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-life-hacks","8":"category-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/I-was-cutting-my-watermelon-and-was-confused-when-I-saw-these-hard-stems-in-it-does-anyone-know-what-it-is.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90137"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113048,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90137\/revisions\/113048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/113047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefinejournal.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}</p></span></p></span></p></span></h4>