{"id":6824,"date":"2015-10-26T21:41:46","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T20:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=6824"},"modified":"2015-11-02T21:53:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T20:53:38","slug":"daily_392_-_pumpkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2015\/10\/26\/daily_392_-_pumpkins\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 392 &#8211; pumpkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily\/0392_pumpkins.jpg\" class=\"x6y4\" \/><br \/>\nFirst day of autumn break. We bought and carved pumpkins.<\/p>\n<p>For the kids, we found right-sized pumpkins at our local Konsum supermarket. Ridiculous Disney-branded pumpkins, all of identical size and shape&#8230; but they were the right size so what the heck.<\/p>\n<p>I wanted a bigger pumpkin and found one at Hemk\u00f6p. But when I started carving it at home, I realized that I&#8217;d gotten an eating pumpkin instead of a carving pumpkin. I guess whoever does the veggie purchasing at Hemk\u00f6p was not aware that there is a difference, but there definitely is. This one had a very thin skin, almost fragile, that kept cracking as I was carving, and very thick flesh. In fact it had so much flesh that just the parts that I had to cut out were enough for a nice dinner (pasta with black beans and pumpkin saut\u00e9ed with garlic).<\/p>\n<p>Adrian designed a pumpkin but let Ingrid do the rest of the work &#8211; the carving was too hard and the cleaning out of the innards of the pumpkin was too icky. I was quite impressed that Ingrid managed to carve both Adrian&#8217;s and her own pumpkin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First day of autumn break. We bought and carved pumpkins. For the kids, we found right-sized pumpkins at our local Konsum supermarket. Ridiculous Disney-branded pumpkins, all of identical size and shape&#8230; but they were the right size so what the heck. I wanted a bigger pumpkin and found one at Hemk\u00f6p. But when I started [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6824"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6826,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6824\/revisions\/6826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}