{"id":6883,"date":"2016-08-19T07:40:17","date_gmt":"2016-08-19T11:40:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=6883"},"modified":"2016-08-22T08:00:29","modified_gmt":"2016-08-22T12:00:29","slug":"peanuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/08\/19\/peanuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Peanuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I want to take a moment to be thankful for peanuts.\u00a0 They are my breakfast sometimes.\u00a0 They are the perfect way to stave off sugar lows and hunger pains.\u00a0 They are vitamin rich and high in protein and have been shown to help protect against heart disease, alleviate the effects of diabetes, reduce inflammation and protect against colon cancer.\u00a0 And they are in our lives today because of the work of just one man:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Washington_Carver\">George Washington Carver<\/a>. \u00a0 He changed agriculture in the south by encouraging the cultivation of alternate crops like peanuts and sweet potatoes instead of cotton.<\/p>\n<p>He designed a mobile classroom for his course at the Tuskegee Institute&#8217;s Agriculture Department, and became famous and admired for his work.\u00a0 He also came up with <a href=\"http:\/\/aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu\/fruit-nut\/carver-peanut\/\">105 recipes for peanuts in his agricultural bulletin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>He could have added fortune to fame, but caring for neither, he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I want to take a moment to be thankful for peanuts.\u00a0 They are my breakfast sometimes.\u00a0 They are the perfect way to stave off sugar lows and hunger pains.\u00a0 They are vitamin rich and high in protein and have been shown to help protect against heart disease, alleviate the effects of diabetes, reduce inflammation and&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2016\/08\/19\/peanuts\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Peanuts<\/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":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[212,123],"class_list":["post-6883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-gardening","tag-research"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10067,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2022\/04\/29\/holidays-in-the-movies-arbor-day\/","url_meta":{"origin":6883,"position":0},"title":"Holidays in the Movies:  Arbor Day","author":"leems","date":"April 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Title screen from It's Arbor Day, Charlie Brown. https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=63201079 I've said it before, Charlie Brown is the soundtrack to all holidays through my childhood. 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