{"id":15868,"date":"2012-08-30T06:21:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T11:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15868"},"modified":"2012-08-27T09:28:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T14:28:42","slug":"listen-to-the-pumpkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=15868","title":{"rendered":"Listen to the Pumpkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something I wish I&#8217;d known about last spring:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pumpkin-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Etched Pumpkin\" title=\"Etched Pumpkin\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15909\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pumpkin-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pumpkin-150x100.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/pumpkin.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seedsofchange.com\/\">Seeds of Change<\/a>, if you carve a message or design (about 1\/8&#8243; deep) in a pumpkin whilst it&#8217;s still growing, the message will grow along with the pumpkin.  Hello, party centerpiece idea.  (Or individual place cards, if you use mini-pumpkins and don&#8217;t mind planning your parties six months in advance.)<\/p>\n<p>I would assume that the same idea would probably work for things like watermelons and other smooth-skinned squashes and gourds, too.  (Provided that the rind is fairly thick; I doubt it would work on zucchini or summer squash.)<\/p>\n<p>Folks in the other hemisphere who might be thinking about planting some pumpkins in a couple of months, start planning your designs now.  The rest of us can tuck this away for next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s something I wish I&#8217;d known about last spring: According to Seeds of Change, if you carve a message or design (about 1\/8&#8243; deep) in a pumpkin whilst it&#8217;s still growing, the message will grow along with the pumpkin. Hello, party centerpiece idea. (Or individual place cards, if you use mini-pumpkins and don&#8217;t mind planning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-unhallowed-ground"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15868"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15915,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15868\/revisions\/15915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}