{"id":41890,"date":"2025-08-18T19:26:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=41890"},"modified":"2025-08-18T19:26:44","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:26:44","slug":"under-the-spudfluence-how-the-potato-crop-inspires-passion-across-continents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=41890","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Under the spudfluence\u2019: How the potato crop inspires passion across continents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Potatoes-South-Africa-image-South-Africa-Online.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><span style=\"font-size: inherit;\">Potato farming is more than planting and harvesting \u2013 it is a way of life lived under the \u201cspudfluence,\u201d writes Lukie Pieterse in this article. Across the globe, farmers nurture this humble c\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.potatonewstoday.com\/2025\/08\/17\/under-the-spudfluence-how-the-potato-crop-inspires-passion-across-continents\/\">\u2018Under the spudfluence\u2019: How the potato crop inspires passion across continents<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potato farming is more than planting and harvesting \u2013 it is a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[482],"class_list":["post-41890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-potato","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41890"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41893,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41890\/revisions\/41893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}