{"id":235,"date":"2006-06-01T13:40:56","date_gmt":"2006-06-01T18:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/235-12-things-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-pumpkins"},"modified":"2013-01-19T17:42:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-19T22:42:21","slug":"12-things-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-pumpkins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/235-12-things-you-always-wanted-to-know-about-pumpkins\/","title":{"rendered":"12 Things You Always Wanted to Know About Pumpkins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" align=\"right\" width=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/pumpkin.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpkin\" height=\"240\" style=\"width: 160px; height: 240px\" title=\"Pumpkin\" \/>Did you know\u00a6<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 A pumpkin isn&#8217;t really a vegetable? It&#8217;s actually a fruit!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 Roasted pumpkin seeds make a great snack?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 Before pumpkins were discovered, turnips, potatoes and even large beets were used for carving scary faces in?<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n\u00a2 90% of a pumpkin is water?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 Pumpkins got their name from Jacques Cartier? He reported the discovery of \u02dcgros melons&#8217; which when translated into English became \u02dcponpions&#8217; or pumpkins!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 The flowers on a pumpkin vine are edible?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 Before the time of Columbus, Europeans had never seen pumpkins? That&#8217;s because they are native of the Northern Hemisphere (specifically Central America), and have been growing there for some 5000 years!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 Some Native Americans called pumpkins \u02dcisquoter squash&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 Pumpkins belong to the Cucurbitacae family? They aren&#8217;t alone, in there with them are squash, gourds, cucumbers, melons and gherkins.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 If you dry out slices of pumpkin, you can weave a mat? The Native Americans used too!<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 It was once thought that pumpkins could remove freckles and cure snake bites?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a2 Pumpkins can weigh over 1000 pounds?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know\u00a6 \u00a2 A pumpkin isn&#8217;t really a vegetable? It&#8217;s actually a fruit! \u00a2 Roasted pumpkin seeds make a great snack? \u00a2 Before pumpkins were discovered, turnips, potatoes and even large beets were used for carving scary faces in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avivadirectory.com\/trivia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}