{"id":1690,"date":"2019-02-19T00:33:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T00:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/Travel\/?p=639"},"modified":"2019-02-19T00:33:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T00:33:03","slug":"la-quinta-grapefruit-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=1690","title":{"rendered":"La Quinta Grapefruit Season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the light of day (rains gone), La Quinta Resort is littered with ripe citrus trees which we were invited to pick from, lest the fruit &#8220;go to waste&#8221;. The hot tip of the day was that the best were the ruby grapefruit trees over by the Spa, so that&#8217;s where we went.   <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">All of the low-hanging fruit (sorry!) was already picked over, but we did spot a worker with a ladder who kindly helped us out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"1024\" width=\"498\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/20190215_095610-e1550534119174-498x1024.jpg?resize=498%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"622\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/Travel\/20190215_095610\/\" class=\"wp-image-622\"\/><figcaption>DIY Grapefruit<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"852\" width=\"640\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/PS_3127b.jpg?resize=640%2C852&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"628\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/Travel\/ps_3127b\/\" class=\"wp-image-628\"\/><figcaption>Grapefruit Selfie<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The day was a lot of lying by the pool and sitting in the hot tub. Palm Springs is not as hot as you might think in February, dipping down to maybe 5-10 C at night, but by mid-day, in the direct sun, it&#8217;s pretty toasty (for a bunch of Canadians). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This evening&#8217;s dinner was at Morgan&#8217;s, the restaurant that is conveniently attached to our favourite Piano Bar hangout. After dinner we invaded the private dating space of a young couple in order to squeeze in around the outdoor firepit and enjoy some after-dinner bevvies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo shoot with me and Chrystal:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"576\" height=\"1024\" data-attachment-id=\"629\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?attachment_id=629\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/PS_3131.jpg?fit=720%2C1280&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"720,1280\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" 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The hot tip of the day was that the best were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/?p=1690\">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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-la-quinta-2019","category-travel_blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8xTNS-rg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynerdyfriend.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}