{"id":5025,"date":"2011-01-26T21:54:02","date_gmt":"2011-01-27T05:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/?p=5025"},"modified":"2011-02-21T01:39:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T09:39:18","slug":"on-january-26th-2011-ortiche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/2011\/01\/26\/on-january-26th-2011-ortiche\/","title":{"rendered":"On January 26th, 2011, ORTICHE&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5026\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5026\" style=\"width: 266px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-5026\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/2011\/01\/26\/on-january-26th-2011-ortiche\/2011-01-26-p1180733\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5026\" title=\"ortiche, or nettles\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011-01-26-P1180733-266x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011-01-26-P1180733-266x150.jpg 266w, https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/2011-01-26-P1180733.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 266px) 100vw, 266px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5026\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ortiche showing up in the pot of a small bare peach tree which is a bit Charlie Brown Christmas, so every bit of green is welcome these days<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8230;or <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nettle\" target=\"_blank\">nettles<\/a>, are to be found all over the streets of Rome, coming up from any unattended space between stones, they sting (a fact I am sure every Roman child learns early on with a warning from a parent &#8211; since it is the first thing that all of my Italian friends say about them: &#8216;pizzica!&#8217;), are known as a sort of peasant food, can be brewed as tea, or cooked with pasta, making a cameo appearance in Pasolini&#8217;s &#8216;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/wikidiary\/2010\/11\/29\/on-november-29th-2010-teorema\/\" target=\"_blank\">Teorema<\/a>&#8221; when the maid refuses to eat anything else &#8211; and I am letting them have their way in my garden as they pop up here and there &#8211; a pretty green in a winter garden &#8211; since they are such a quintessentially Roman street food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or nettles, are to be found all over the streets of Rome, coming up from any unattended space between stones, they sting (a fact I am sure every\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[1723,1730,745,744,636,583,1759],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gardens","tag-food","tag-gardens","tag-nettles","tag-ortiche","tag-pier-paolo-pasolini","tag-roman-rooftop","tag-rome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5029,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions\/5029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fritzhaeg.com\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}