{"id":868,"date":"2014-11-09T23:18:14","date_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2014-11-09T23:19:28","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T23:19:28","slug":"giant-pumpkin-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/giant-pumpkin-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Pumpkin &#8211; world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_870\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-870\" style=\"width: 226px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MG_4827.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-870\" alt=\"Giant pumpkin weigh-off competition\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MG_4827-226x340.jpg\" width=\"226\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MG_4827-226x340.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/MG_4827.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 226px) 100vw, 226px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-870\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giant pumpkin weigh-off competition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As recently as 1983,\u00a0 the world record for largest pumpkin was still less than 500 lbs.<\/p>\n<p>Just twenty-nine years later, 2012, the world record had increased four fold &#8230; 2009 lbs, established at the Topsfield Fair.\u00a0 The first pumpkin ever to weigh more than one ton.<\/p>\n<p>The photo here shows the giant pumpkin weigh-off competition at the 2012 Deerfield Fair.\u00a0 A new world record was established, but the record only lasted one day, as the record was beaten the very next day at Topsfield Fair.\u00a0 (Happily, I was preset at both these competitions.)<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the title moved to Europe.\u00a0 2323 lbs, grown in Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>#giantpumpkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As recently as 1983,\u00a0 the world record for largest pumpkin was still less than 500 lbs. Just twenty-nine years later, 2012, the world record had increased four fold &#8230; 2009 lbs, established at the Topsfield Fair.\u00a0 The first pumpkin ever to weigh more than one ton. The photo here shows the giant pumpkin weigh-off competition [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,20],"tags":[126],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-newengland","category-photo","tag-giant-pumpkin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","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=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":872,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions\/872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kevindavisphoto.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}