{"id":1153,"date":"2015-04-30T17:59:57","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T17:59:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2017-07-17T10:44:10","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T14:44:10","slug":"cactus-torch-1187-for-burning-off-spines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/2015\/04\/30\/cactus-torch-1187-for-burning-off-spines\/","title":{"rendered":"Cactus Torch 1187 (for burning off spines)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\n<p>When Opuntia was considered a possible general food source for grazing stock, various torches were made. The goal was to burn the spines off of Opuntia pads before the animals ate them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1154\" style=\"width: 1011px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-content\/uploads\/1187cactustorch0081xb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1154\" src=\"http:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-content\/uploads\/1187cactustorch0081xb.jpg\" alt=\"Cactus Torch 1187\" width=\"1011\" height=\"886\" srcset=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-content\/uploads\/1187cactustorch0081xb.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-content\/uploads\/1187cactustorch0081xb-180x158.jpg 180w, https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-content\/uploads\/1187cactustorch0081xb-300x263.jpg 300w, https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-content\/uploads\/1187cactustorch0081xb-456x400.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1011px) 100vw, 1011px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cactus Torch 1187<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction When Opuntia was considered a possible general food source for grazing stock, various torches were made. The goal was to burn the spines off of Opuntia pads before the animals ate them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1155,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opuntia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-content\/uploads\/1187cactustorch0081x.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}