{"id":4200,"date":"2012-05-11T08:26:57","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T15:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=4200"},"modified":"2012-05-02T14:29:30","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T21:29:30","slug":"sprouts-preview-carob","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/?p=4200","title":{"rendered":"SPROUTS Preview: “Carob”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A page of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Carob\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Glynnis Fawkes<\/a>, from Trees & Hills’ new food-themed anthology Sprouts<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

\""Carob"<\/a><\/p>\n

Pre-order our new food-themed anthology Sprouts<\/em><\/a> by May 13<\/strong> to get it signed, sketched, and shipped for free!<\/strong> Tell your friends! (seriously, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big help)<\/p>\n

Transcript of comic:<\/strong><\/p>\n

While wandering in the Judean desert (during work on the excavations at Tel Yaffir near Hebron in July 1989), [Glynnis approaches a pod-bearing tree thinking, “I’m hungry. What’s that tree?”] I discovered [she reaches for a pod and puts it in her mouth] \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Um? Yum! I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll bet this is\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

carob.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Also called St. John\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bread because in the Bible, Matt 3:4, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153John the Baptist was preaching in the wilderness of Judea \u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 and his food was Locusts and wild honey.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The Greek word translated \u00e2\u20ac\u0153locusts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is taken by some to mean \u00e2\u20ac\u0153carobs\u00e2\u20ac\u009d rather than grasshoppers.<\/p>\n

[St. John, eating pods from a tree:] \u00e2\u20ac\u0153That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good, because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d prefer to eat these big sweet chewy pods than grasshoppers any day. & they sure beat those veggie schnitzel back at the Kibbutz.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A page of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Carob\u00e2\u20ac\u009d by Glynnis Fawkes, from Trees & Hills’ new food-themed anthology Sprouts: Pre-order our new food-themed anthology Sprouts by May 13 to get it signed, sketched, and shipped for free! Tell your friends! (seriously, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a big help) Transcript of comic:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[39,15,38],"tags":[267,229,266,268,231,230,232],"class_list":["post-4200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-comics","category-trees-and-hills-comics-group","tag-carob","tag-food","tag-glynnis-fawkes","tag-judea","tag-previews","tag-sprouts","tag-trees-and-hills-comics-group-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd8gD-15K","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4200"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4202,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4200\/revisions\/4202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cartoonistconspiracy.com\/conspire\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}