{"id":687,"date":"2009-11-02T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T17:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keeneweb.org\/newsline\/?p=687"},"modified":"2011-05-20T20:09:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T20:09:12","slug":"pumpkin-lobotomy-puts-city-over-the-top","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2009\/11\/02\/pumpkin-lobotomy-puts-city-over-the-top\/","title":{"rendered":"Pumpkin Lobotomy Puts City over the Top"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_689\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-689\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-689\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2009\/11\/pumkin_lobotomy_lr_091.jpg\" alt=\"2500 pumpkins from Bradford, Vermont, were lobotomized on Fiske Quad on October 16 (Lynn Roman photo).\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2009\/11\/pumkin_lobotomy_lr_091.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/files\/2009\/11\/pumkin_lobotomy_lr_091-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-689\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2500 pumpkins from Bradford, Vermont, were lobotomized on Fiske Quad on October 16 (Lynn Roman photo).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thanks in no small part to the dedicated efforts of KSC students, faculty, staff, and friends churning out clever carved gourds at this year&#8217;s Pumpkin Lobotomy, the City of Keene&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pumpkinfestival.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pumpkin Festival<\/a> wowed visitors with a total of 29,762 lighted jack-o-lanterns. That total broke the festival&#8217;s previous record of 28,952, set in 2003, but fell a bit short of the world record 30,128, set in Boston three years ago. But we&#8217;re within striking distance of recapturing the Guinness record. Wait till next year!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/keeneweb.org\/campusnews\/2009\/10\/22\/pumpkinfest-several-tons-of-pumpkin-guts\/\">More information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks in no small part to the dedicated efforts of KSC students, faculty, staff, and friends churning out clever carved gourds at this year&#8217;s Pumpkin Lobotomy, the City of Keene&#8217;s Pumpkin Festival wowed visitors with a total of 29,762 lighted jack-o-lanterns. That total broke the festival&#8217;s previous record of 28,952, set in 2003, but fell &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/2009\/11\/02\/pumpkin-lobotomy-puts-city-over-the-top\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pumpkin Lobotomy Puts City over the Top<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":171,"featured_media":689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2544,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/2544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.keene.edu\/newsline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}