{"id":7530,"date":"2010-11-01T20:28:18","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T00:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/plant-talk\/?p=7530"},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:47:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T20:47:03","slug":"its-still-a-great-pumpkin-in-our-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2010\/11\/garden-programming\/its-still-a-great-pumpkin-in-our-book\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Still a Great Pumpkin in Our Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Scott Cully, Sara Mussen & Michael Anthony Natiello contemplate pumpkins and Newton<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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Gravity, it seems, will always win. Whether it’s in the war against wrinkles, when you drop your buttered toast, or when you’re carving the world’s heaviest pumpkin<\/a>. Here on earth, we’re all a slave to it.<\/p>\n

And while Chris Stevens’ 1,810.5 pound<\/a> world record-holder<\/a> did succumb to Newton’s most famous force, the other two fabulous pumpkins<\/a> are still on view here at The New York Botanical Garden<\/a>, and should be around through Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Carver Scott Cully<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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Micheal Natiello<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n
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Carver Sara Mussen<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

And here’s hoping Scott Cully<\/a>‘s heroic effort will be considered great by another book: The Guinness Book<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scott Cully’s giant pumpkin may have succumbed to gravity, but we’re still hoping his heroic effort will be considered great by another book: The Guinness Book.<\/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":[896,447,897,38,900,898,4648,899],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-1Xs","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530"}],"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=7530"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7566,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7530\/revisions\/7566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}