{"id":13319,"date":"2011-10-18T13:39:27","date_gmt":"2011-10-18T17:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=13319"},"modified":"2011-10-19T17:10:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-19T21:10:09","slug":"zombies-set-sights-on-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/10\/around-the-garden\/zombies-set-sights-on-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Zombies Set Sights on the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re spooky and they&#8217;re ubiquitous, and they&#8217;re heading straight for the Bronx! That&#8217;s right, beginning this weekend, zombies will be invading the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/halloween\/\"><em>Haunted Pumpkin Garden<\/em><\/a>, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/villafanestudios.com\/gallery\/the-pumpkins-2\">pumpkin-carving provocateur Ray Villafane<\/a>. Currently appearing on the Food Network&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodnetwork.com\/shows\/halloween-wars\/pictures\/index.html\">Halloween Wars<\/a>,&#8221; Villafane will be calling the Garden home this weekend, where he&#8217;ll be carving two of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/tag\/giant-pumpkins-2011\/\">world&#8217;s biggest pumpkins<\/a> into one unforgettable pumpkin sculpture.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see what Ray has got planned? Head below the jump to check it. But be warned, it&#8217;s the stuff of pumpkin nightmares!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_13320\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13320\" style=\"width: 588px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/villafane-pumpkin-concept.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"13320\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2011\/10\/around-the-garden\/zombies-set-sights-on-the-garden\/attachment\/villafane-pumpkin-concept\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/villafane-pumpkin-concept.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1296,968\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 4&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1318612121&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.85&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;125&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.058823529411765&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Ray Villafane giant pumpkin concept sketch\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/villafane-pumpkin-concept-300x224.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/villafane-pumpkin-concept-1024x764.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13320    \" title=\"Ray Villafane giant pumpkin concept sketch\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/villafane-pumpkin-concept.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Villafane giant pumpkin concept sketch\" width=\"588\" height=\"439\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/villafane-pumpkin-concept.jpg 1296w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/villafane-pumpkin-concept-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/villafane-pumpkin-concept-1024x764.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 588px) 100vw, 588px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-13320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ray Villafane&#39;s giant pumpkin carving concept sketch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Don&#8217;t let the zombies stop you from checking out all the other Halloween-themed Garden fun! The <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/halloween\/\">Haunted Pumpkin Garden<\/a> <\/em>is so fun, it&#8217;s scary!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pumpkin-carving provocateur Ray Villafane will be carving two of the world&#8217;s largest pumpkins into a nightmare-inducing zombie sculpture at The New York Botanical Garden this weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":13320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[952],"tags":[896,1821,1806,38,4694,4648],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/villafane-pumpkin-concept.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-3sP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13319"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13328,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13319\/revisions\/13328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}