{"id":737,"date":"2013-09-26T21:41:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T20:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/?p=737"},"modified":"2013-09-26T21:42:39","modified_gmt":"2013-09-26T20:42:39","slug":"pumpkins-big-and-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2013\/pumpkins-big-and-small","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkins &#8211; big and small"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, my chemist&#8217;s brother <a title=\"Big pumpkin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2012\/big-pumpkins\">set a European record for the largest pumpkin<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 This year &#8211; well, his pumpkin shattered the metric ton mark, but it won&#8217;t count because it has a thumb-sized hole on the bottom.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you do with a disqualified one-ton-berry?\u00c2\u00a0 Carve the sucker!\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d <a title=\"Ray Villafane\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2013\/another-level-of-pumpkin-carving\">mentioned Ray Villafane before<\/a>: here&#8217;s what he does with a giant pumpkin:<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/die-webzeitung.de\/ludwigsburg\/2013\/09\/24\/superschnitzer-und-superkurbis-vereint\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/die-webzeitung.de\/ludwigsburg\/files\/2013\/09\/Ray_Villafane_big_pumpkin.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"471\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">World&#8217;s heaviest pumpkin (unofficially) in Ludwigsburg<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As for my pumpkins: the largest butternut weighed in at 976 grams, and the lone pumpkin is probably around 7-8 kilograms, too heavy for the kitchen scale to tell.\u00c2\u00a0 So I&#8217;ve beaten my own record &#8211; and would beat Beni Meier&#8217;s giant in an official contest, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, my chemist&#8217;s brother set a European record for the largest pumpkin.\u00c2\u00a0 This year &#8211; well, his pumpkin shattered the metric ton mark, but it won&#8217;t count because it has a thumb-sized hole on the bottom. So what do you do with a disqualified one-ton-berry?\u00c2\u00a0 Carve the sucker!\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;d mentioned Ray Villafane before: here&#8217;s what he does with a giant pumpkin: As for my pumpkins: the largest butternut weighed in at 976 grams, and the lone pumpkin is probably around 7-8 kilograms, too heavy for the kitchen scale to tell.\u00c2\u00a0 So I&#8217;ve beaten my own record &#8211; and would beat Beni Meier&#8217;s giant in an official contest, too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,23,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=737"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":739,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737\/revisions\/739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}