{"id":65,"date":"2012-10-08T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2012-10-08T12:30:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-08T12:30:00","slug":"its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=65","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Once again we have outdone ourselves in the pumpkin department.\u00a0 Every year we do better and better, and this year we actually have a fairly decent crop for decorating our front porch:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-E2UozKyUYdw\/UG1eT6FVCNI\/AAAAAAAAAcg\/FtB7vgJlH-s\/s1600\/CIMG6031.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" mea=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-E2UozKyUYdw\/UG1eT6FVCNI\/AAAAAAAAAcg\/FtB7vgJlH-s\/s320\/CIMG6031.JPG\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Remember that Batwing pumpkin I posted about, way back when?<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-w46cMCm8kpY\/UBpWd4DbyOI\/AAAAAAAAAVQ\/ToIIYsxwoRI\/s1600\/CIMG5474.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" mea=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-w46cMCm8kpY\/UBpWd4DbyOI\/AAAAAAAAAVQ\/ToIIYsxwoRI\/s320\/CIMG5474.JPG\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>It turned into this:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LNzRb0lKxMg\/UG1ehHC3yMI\/AAAAAAAAAco\/Y8YuaNXjjGs\/s1600\/CIMG6033.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" mea=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LNzRb0lKxMg\/UG1ehHC3yMI\/AAAAAAAAAco\/Y8YuaNXjjGs\/s320\/CIMG6033.JPG\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Amusingly, the bottom even sort of looks like a bat:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ivBogZrXYLw\/UG2aaJrtKyI\/AAAAAAAAAfQ\/6y5FVAxn35g\/s1600\/Batwing+pumpkin\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" mea=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-ivBogZrXYLw\/UG2aaJrtKyI\/AAAAAAAAAfQ\/6y5FVAxn35g\/s1600\/Batwing+pumpkin\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Ok, so you have to squint and use your imagination.\u00a0 I&#8217;m just trying to keep it interesting, people.\u00a0 There&#8217;s only so much excitement to be mined from writing about vegetables.<br \/>\ufeff<br \/>Once again, the Jack-be-Littles proved themselves to be stellar:<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-hnkynlEZQLk\/UG1ezZADrVI\/AAAAAAAAAc4\/UaHnrz4ZcOo\/s1600\/CIMG6034.JPG\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"240\" mea=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-hnkynlEZQLk\/UG1ezZADrVI\/AAAAAAAAAc4\/UaHnrz4ZcOo\/s320\/CIMG6034.JPG\" width=\"320\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>There were a total of 18;\u00a0three went to my in-laws and three went to my neighbor&#8217;s children (for helping me plant fall mums in my window boxes) before I snapped this photo.\u00a0 Now that I&#8217;m thinking about it, I should give some to my parents, too.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Jack-be-Littles are scattered all over the downstairs of my house as decorations, safe until it&#8217;s time to change everything over to Christmas decorations.\u00a0 But the large pumpkins on the porch?\u00a0 Well, I think we all know what&#8217;s coming:<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-TkBdiCPhStE\/UG1hSar1_HI\/AAAAAAAAAeQ\/c2kopUKWBVQ\/s1600\/Flaming+pumpkin.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" border=\"0\" height=\"320\" mea=\"true\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-TkBdiCPhStE\/UG1hSar1_HI\/AAAAAAAAAeQ\/c2kopUKWBVQ\/s320\/Flaming+pumpkin.jpg\" width=\"240\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><strong><span><em>A FIREY DEATH!<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Once again we have outdone ourselves in the pumpkin department.\u00a0 Every year we do better and better, and this year we actually have a fairly decent crop for decorating our front porch: Remember that Batwing pumpkin I posted about, way back when? It turned into this: Amusingly, the bottom even sort of looks like a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/?p=65\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">It&#8217;s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sharing_disabled":false,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3f8I6-13","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cocktailfarmers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}