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I’m happy to report that my bird proofing experiment worked like a charm, the figs were perfectly ripe and delicious!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’m happy to report that my bird proofing experiment worked like a charm, the figs were perfectly ripe and delicious!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,104,2093],"tags":[1872,105],"class_list":["post-24283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-philadelphia","category-photography-2","tag-figs","tag-south-philly"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1ed1x-figs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24273,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2018\/08\/28\/bird-proofing-the-figs\/","url_meta":{"origin":24283,"position":0},"title":"Bird-Proofing the Figs","author":"Tina Garceau","date":"August 28, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Two years ago, they were wreaking havoc with my basil plants, now the birds are hogging the figs on the lower branches of the tree in our backyard. 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