{"id":13342,"date":"2013-08-16T01:14:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T08:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=13342"},"modified":"2013-08-16T01:14:40","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T08:14:40","slug":"watermelon-things-you-may-see-at-weekend-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/watermelon-things-you-may-see-at-weekend-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon Things You May See at Weekend Festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Watermelon, the vegetable and fruit, is on center stage this weekend as several festivals make it a headline act. The Watermelon Festival in Pasadena takes place at the Rose Bowl August 16-18, 2013 (lionswatermelonfestival.com), and features all the watermelon you can eat. Watermelon eating, seed spitting, recipe and wearable art contests are part of the fun. \u00a0What you will see: National Watermelon Queen Amber Noli (center photo); watermelon swimsuit by OP–maybe? (right photo); Vans watermelon shoes, probably not–they were released in 2009;\u00a0\u00a0 Guinness World Records World’s Heaviest Watermelon (upper left photo) – definitely NOT. It \u00a0was grown by Lloyd Bright of Arkadelphia, Arkansas in 2005, weighing in at 268.8 lbs. That melon is long gone. A cat eating watermelon? You never know. Admission is $10.<\/p>\n

In addition, there’s a big watermelon event on the beach in Huntington Beach called Ribs, Pigs & Watermelon (afhusa.org). It also goes from August 16 to 18, and cost $5 admission. Here’s last year’s feature coverage<\/a> we provided!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Watermelon, the vegetable and fruit, is on center stage this weekend as several festivals make it a headline act. The Watermelon Festival in Pasadena takes place at the Rose Bowl August 16-18, 2013 (lionswatermelonfestival.com), and features all the watermelon you can eat. Watermelon eating, seed spitting, recipe and wearable art contests are part of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13342"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}