{"id":566,"date":"2012-11-26T05:48:58","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T05:48:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=566"},"modified":"2012-12-18T05:05:23","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T05:05:23","slug":"giant-pumpkin-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/giant-pumpkin-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Pumpkin Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the\u00a0tail end of September this year, I photographed\u00a0a couple of events where giant pumpkins were weighed in competition.\u00a0\u00a0I overheard a fellow make a comment about one particular giant, “There’s something weird about that one.”\u00a0 I leaned over and offered my own\u00a0uninvited follow-up comment\u00a0“There’s something weird about all of those pumpkins.”\u00a0 The guy grinned and enthusiastically agreed, “Yeah, they’re all huge!”<\/p>\n

Giant fruits and vegetables are generally peculiar.\u00a0 But a crowd of a hundered people eagerly watching pumpkins get weighed on scales, that’s peculiar too.\u00a0 Even more surprising is the uproar and applause when a new contender puts up a number (on the scale) bigger than any other.\u00a0 Stranger still, some people carve out the giant pumpkins, float it in water, climb inside and paddle it as a boat.\u00a0\u00a0I\u00a0love New England!<\/p>\n

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Damariscotta Pumpkin Festival<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Damariscotta Pumpkin Festival & Regatta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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At the\u00a0tail end of September this year, I photographed\u00a0a couple of events where giant pumpkins were weighed in competition.\u00a0\u00a0I overheard a fellow make a comment about one particular giant, “There’s something weird about that one.”\u00a0 I leaned over and offered my own\u00a0uninvited follow-up comment\u00a0“There’s something weird about all of those pumpkins.”\u00a0 The guy grinned and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,20],"tags":[61,59,62],"class_list":["post-566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newengland","category-photo","tag-giant","tag-photo-2","tag-pumpkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=566"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":594,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/566\/revisions\/594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}