{"id":24391,"date":"2017-07-01T11:15:24","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T18:15:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=24391"},"modified":"2017-07-01T02:45:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-01T09:45:49","slug":"wheres-my-watermelon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wheres-my-watermelon\/","title":{"rendered":"Where&#8217;s My Watermelon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/watrmelo.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Recently the Tucson, AZ mayor issued a demand for frozen watermelon treats amid record heat that gripped parts of California, as well. Though the weather has cooled watermelon is a hot commodity. It is used in Korean skin care products, is a popular ice cream sandwich ingredient, and watermelon is in high demand for 4th of July celebrations. In a fitting tribute to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/california-watermelon.html\">California<\/a>\u00a0the National Watermelon Association held its 2017 convention in Lake Tahoe.<\/p>\n<h2>National Watermelon Hall of Famers<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Al Harrison (1910-1985) \u00a0Established Harrison Brothers Company in Los Angeles in the early 1930s.<\/li>\n<li>Ernie Zaferis (1921-1990)\u00a0\u00a0Established United Melon Distributors in Los Angeles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/events\/4thofjuly\/watermelon.html\">4th of July Watermelon Events<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>ALBANY: \u00a0Watermelon-eating contest<\/li>\n<li>COLUMBIA: Watermelon contest<\/li>\n<li>EL SEGUNDO: \u00a0Watermelon Eating Contest<\/li>\n<li>FREMONT: Ardenwood Park&#8217; \u00a0watermelon seed spitting contest<\/li>\n<li>KINGS BEACH: \u00a03rd of July \u00a0free watermelon eating<\/li>\n<li>LA VERNE: Free watermelon slice<\/li>\n<li>LOS ANGELES: \u00a0free watermelon, Vision Theatre Back Lot<\/li>\n<li>PLEASANT HILL: \u00a0Watermelon eating contest<\/li>\n<li>SAN GABRIEL: Watermelon eating contest<\/li>\n<li>TOPANGA: \u00a0Watermelon seed-spitting contest<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/california-watermelon-festivals.html\">Watermelon Festivals<\/a><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Slice of Chico July 14-15<\/li>\n<li>California Watermelon Festival July 29-30<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently the Tucson, AZ mayor issued a demand for frozen watermelon treats amid record heat that gripped parts of California, as well. Though the weather has cooled watermelon is a hot commodity. It is used in Korean skin care products, is a popular ice cream sandwich ingredient, and watermelon is in high demand for 4th [&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\/24391"}],"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=24391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}