{"id":289057,"date":"2017-10-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-10-15T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/this-award-winning-pumpkin-will-fly\/"},"modified":"2017-10-15T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T07:00:00","slug":"this-award-winning-pumpkin-will-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/this-award-winning-pumpkin-will-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"This award-winning pumpkin will fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Point Loma High alum Jon Berndes, who now lives in East County, &#8220;really&#8221; knows how to grow pumpkins. Every year he brings in the cream of the crop. As you can see, he didn&#8217;t disappoint again this year. &#8220;I have been growing pumpkins for almost 20 years,&#8221;?Berndes said. &#8220;I have grown almost 10 tons of pumpkins.&#8221; \u00a0<br \/>\nBerndes added, &#8220;This year&#8217;s 800-pound pumpkin is my largest. I entered it in the Irvine pumpkin weigh-off Sept. 23\u00a0and I won $1,000 for being the third-heaviest pumpkin. I also won $100 for being the prettiest pumpkin.&#8221;<br \/>\nBerndes said, on Halloween day, his pumpkin &#8220;will be full of candy and dropped from the 11th floor at Muir Hall at UC San Diego. I have provided the pumpkin for the drop the last eight years.&#8221;<br \/>\nBerndes added his other big pumpkin, the lighter one, is 700 pounds.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Point Loma High alum Jon Berndes, who now lives in East County, &#8220;really&#8221; knows how to grow pumpkins. Every year he brings in the cream of the crop. As you can see, he didn&#8217;t disappoint again this year. &#8220;I have been growing pumpkins for almost 20 years,&#8221;?Berndes said. &#8220;I have grown almost 10 tons of [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":289058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11559","_seopress_titles_title":"This award-winning pumpkin will fly","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11559,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-289057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beach-bay-press","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}