{"id":2260,"date":"2011-10-13T20:41:19","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T00:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/community\/exploringourmatrix\/?p=2260"},"modified":"2011-10-13T20:41:19","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T00:41:19","slug":"the-case-of-the-missing-fruit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/religionprof\/2011\/10\/the-case-of-the-missing-fruit.html","title":{"rendered":"The Case of the Missing Fruit"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>We have several fruit trees in our yard. Most years, we have so much \u2013 in particular of pears \u2013 that we give away bags full of them to friends and colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>This year, we didn\u2019t get to eat a single piece. All the fruit from the two pear trees, the apple tree, the peach tree, the cherry tree, and the quince disappeared just before they were ripe enough for us to pick them.<\/p>\n<p>We had a suspect in mind, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allanbevere.com\/2011\/10\/caption-contest-201113.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">after seeing the photo below which Allan Bevere posted, I am certain that this is our culprit<\/a>:<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 419px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-QrYtYXnCKRw\/TpX54Yd0v2I\/AAAAAAAAEZ0\/qhzQavO9vfw\/s1600\/Super+Squirrel.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"419\" height=\"500\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Super Squirrel fights injustices such as humans trying to keep their fruit to themselves and their bird seed just for birds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have several fruit trees in our yard. 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