{"id":7500,"date":"2010-10-28T12:26:14","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T16:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=7500"},"modified":"2010-10-28T12:26:14","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T16:26:14","slug":"three-its-a-magic-number","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2010\/10\/garden-programming\/three-its-a-magic-number\/","title":{"rendered":"Three, It&#8217;s a Magic Number"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/newyorkbotanicalgarden\/5120826821\/\"><img class=\"alignright\" title=\"World's Heaviest Pumpkin\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4086\/5120826821_d4dfdf4233.jpg\" alt=\"World's Heaviest Pumpkin\" width=\"500\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>When life hands you three giant pumpkins, you might as well carve them into jack-o&#8217;lanterns! Really, really big jack-o&#8217;-lanterns.<\/p>\n<p>This Friday and Saturday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2010\/10\/garden-programming\/carving-the-great-pumpkin\/\" target=\"_self\">World Record-holder Scott Cully<\/a> (who will be carving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2010\/10\/garden-programming\/worlds-heaviest-pumpkin-at-the-new-york-botanical-garden\/\" target=\"_self\">current World&#8217;s Heaviest Pumpkin<\/a>) will be joined by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N4QHi1EWWEw\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Anthony Natiello<\/a>, the carver behind the 500 pumpkins decorating <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\" target=\"_self\">The New York Botanical Garden<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2010\/10\/garden-programming\/halloween-hoorah-for-kids-of-all-ages\/\" target=\"_self\"><em>Halloween Hoorah<\/em><\/a> and creator of the Great Jack O&#8217; Lantern Blaze at the historic Van Cortlandt Manor.\u00a0 Michael will be carving the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2010\/10\/exhibit-news\/the-giant-pumpkins-are-here\/\" target=\"_self\">1,725 pound runner-up pumpkin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Natiello&#8217;s collaborator Sara Mussen will be on hand on Friday to carve the third pumpkin, a 1,674.5 pounder grown by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2010\/10\/garden-programming\/the-inside-scoop-giant-pumpkin-growers\/\" target=\"_self\">Steve Connolly<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday and Saturday, World Record-holder Scott Cully (who will be carving the current World&#8217;s Heaviest Pumpkin) will be joined by Michael Anthony Natiello, renowned creator of the Great Jack O&#8217; Lantern Blaze at the historic Van Cortlandt Manor to carve 2010&#8217;s runner-up to the year&#8217;s heaviest pumpkin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[625,896,447,897,38,4648,915,914],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-1WY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500"}],"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\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7502,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7500\/revisions\/7502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}