{"id":12403,"date":"2010-10-29T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-10-29T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2010\/10\/29\/its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-the-world-of-competitive-pumpkin-growing\/"},"modified":"2010-10-29T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-10-29T07:00:01","slug":"its-the-great-pumpkin-charlie-brown-the-world-of-competitive-pumpkin-growing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20101029-01\/?p=12403\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#039;s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown: The world of competitive pumpkin-growing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Bill Littlefield of NPR&#8217;s sports program <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlyagame.org\"> <i>Only a Game<\/i><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onlyagame.org\/shows\/2007\/10\/20071020.asp\"> interviews Susan Warren about competitive pumpkin-growing<\/a>. [<a href=\"http:\/\/realserver.bu.edu:8080\/ramgen\/w\/b\/wbur\/oag\/audio\/2007\/10\/oag_1020.rm?start=41:25\">Direct link<\/a> &#8211; Real format] An excerpt from her book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1596912782?tag=tholneth-20\"> <i>Backyard Giants<\/i><\/a> was printed in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/\"> <i>The Wall Street Journal<\/i><\/a>: <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB118860052482715050.html\"> The Race to Break the Squash Barrier<\/a>, the quest to grow a one-ton pumpkin. I&#8217;m fascinated by these subcultures of people obsessed with one thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Littlefield of NPR&#8217;s sports program Only a Game interviews Susan Warren about competitive pumpkin-growing. [Direct link &#8211; Real format] An excerpt from her book Backyard Giants was printed in The Wall Street Journal: The Race to Break the Squash Barrier, the quest to grow a one-ton pumpkin. I&#8217;m fascinated by these subcultures of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-12403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Bill Littlefield of NPR&#8217;s sports program Only a Game interviews Susan Warren about competitive pumpkin-growing. [Direct link &#8211; Real format] An excerpt from her book Backyard Giants was printed in The Wall Street Journal: The Race to Break the Squash Barrier, the quest to grow a one-ton pumpkin. I&#8217;m fascinated by these subcultures of people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}