{"id":30094,"date":"2012-10-19T06:00:58","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T10:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=30094"},"modified":"2012-10-23T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T18:26:23","slug":"morning-eye-candy-maneater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/10\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-maneater\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning Eye Candy: Maneater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Nope, it&#8217;s not a scene from the as-yet-unreleased <em>Little Shop of Horrors 2<\/em>. <a title=\"Ray Villafane Studios\" href=\"http:\/\/www.villafanestudios.com\" target=\"_blank\">Ray Villafane<\/a> and his team have been working since Thursday to prep these monstrous pumpkins for this weekend&#8217;s Great Pumpkin event, and today they&#8217;ll be at Grand Central Terminal for the kick-off. If you happen to be around midtown this morning or afternoon, feel free to stop by and see Ray whipping up the stuff of nightmares from nothing more than&#8230;.well, a few thousand pounds of pumpkin. And remember: <a title=\"Halloween at the NYBG\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/exhibitions\/2012\/halloween\/index.php\">the big event goes off this weekend here at the NYBG<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MEC-Eaten-by-a-Pumpkin.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"30095\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2012\/10\/photography\/morning-eye-candy-maneater\/attachment\/mec-eaten-by-a-pumpkin\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MEC-Eaten-by-a-Pumpkin.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2000,3006\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;2.8&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;NIKON D700&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1350554146&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;35&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;400&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.008&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Eaten by a Pumpkin\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MEC-Eaten-by-a-Pumpkin-199x300.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MEC-Eaten-by-a-Pumpkin-681x1024.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-30095\" title=\"Eaten by a Pumpkin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MEC-Eaten-by-a-Pumpkin-681x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MEC-Eaten-by-a-Pumpkin-681x1024.jpg 681w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MEC-Eaten-by-a-Pumpkin-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MEC-Eaten-by-a-Pumpkin.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Photo by Ivo M. Vermeulen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not the Little Shop of Horrors, but you&#8217;re not far off, either.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":153,"featured_media":30095,"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":[952,146],"tags":[449,447,1512,1809],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/MEC-Eaten-by-a-Pumpkin.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-7Po","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30094"}],"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\/153"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30094"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30186,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30094\/revisions\/30186"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}