{"id":23233,"date":"2016-09-29T22:23:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T05:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23233"},"modified":"2016-09-29T22:23:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T05:23:44","slug":"pumpkins-squash-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/pumpkins-squash-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkins Squash Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/giapump.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Several years ago when Tim and Susan Mathison set a world record when they presented a 2,032 pound pumpkin (heavier than a VW Beetle,) at one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-pumpkin-weighoff.html\">California&#8217;s pumpkin contests<\/a>. Although that record has been broken, the &#8220;Greatest Pumpkin Show on Earth&#8221; in Elk Grove Oct. 1-2, 2016 promises to set records for fun with its Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off, Pumpkin Derby (downhill racers,) Pumpkin Regatta (water race,) and World Pumpkin Pie Eating Championship. Celebrate pumpkins at\u00a0 festivals\u00a0 throughout the state, but don&#8217;t get squashed if you see a giant pumpkin coming your way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago when Tim and Susan Mathison set a world record when they presented a 2,032 pound pumpkin (heavier than a VW Beetle,) at one of California&#8217;s pumpkin contests. Although that record has been broken, the &#8220;Greatest Pumpkin Show on Earth&#8221; in Elk Grove Oct. 1-2, 2016 promises to set records for fun with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/23233"}],"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=23233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}