{"id":47784,"date":"2014-10-22T14:42:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=47784"},"modified":"2014-10-22T14:42:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-22T18:42:41","slug":"inside-ray-villafanes-apocalyptic-zombie-carving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/10\/video\/inside-ray-villafanes-apocalyptic-zombie-carving\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside Ray Villafane&#8217;s Apocalyptic Zombie Carving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1014-ray-zombie-250x280.jpg\"><img data-attachment-id=\"47785\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2014\/10\/video\/inside-ray-villafanes-apocalyptic-zombie-carving\/attachment\/1014-ray-zombie-250x280\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1014-ray-zombie-250x280.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"250,280\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"1014-ray-zombie-250&#215;280\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1014-ray-zombie-250x280.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1014-ray-zombie-250x280.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-47785\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1014-ray-zombie-250x280.jpg\" alt=\"Ray Villafane Zombie carving The Haunted Pumpkin Garden\" width=\"250\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a>Last weekend was our Pumpkin Carving Weekend with Ray Villafane, and the Master Carver himself executed a massive pumpkin sculpture, after his own design, with the help of his crack team. The fruits\u2014or gourds\u2014of his labor are on display through October 31 as part of <a title=\"The Haunted Pumpkin Garden\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/exhibitions\/2014\/haunted-pumpkin-garden\/index.php\"><em>The Haunted Pumpkin Garden<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In case you missed the opportunity to see Ray&#8217;s zombie carving come to life, we have a video with Ray himself taking you through the process of carving his pumpkin sculpture for NYBG. The end result is a bone-chilling zombie climbing out of a 1700-pound pumpkin! Check out the installation this weekend as part of our annual <a title=\"Award-Winning Giant Pumpkin Display\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/exhibitions\/2014\/haunted-pumpkin-garden\/special-weekend-events.php\">Award-Winning Giant Pumpkin Display<\/a>, or for the full Halloween experience get tickets to one of our upcoming <a title=\"Spooky Nighttime Adventures\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/exhibitions\/2014\/haunted-pumpkin-garden\/spooky-nighttime-adventures.php\">Spooky Nighttime Adventures<\/a> and see Ray&#8217;s creation fully illuminated for the first time in his four years working with the Garden.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mY1edW6jT_Y\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Master Carver Ray Villafane takes us through his massive zombie pumpkin carving for NYBG&#8217;s Haunted Pumpkin Garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":184,"featured_media":47785,"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":[49,20],"tags":[2847,4694,2806,4616],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/1014-ray-zombie-250x280.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-cqI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47784"}],"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\/184"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47784"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47787,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47784\/revisions\/47787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}