{"id":10634,"date":"2025-10-22T18:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=10634"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:38:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T23:38:59","slug":"at-this-regatta-boats-are-giant-pumpkins-its-as-chaotic-as-it-sounds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2025\/10\/22\/at-this-regatta-boats-are-giant-pumpkins-its-as-chaotic-as-it-sounds\/","title":{"rendered":"At this regatta, boats are giant pumpkins. It\u2019s as chaotic as it sounds."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2025\/10\/22\/giant-pumpkin-regatta-oregon\/\">Washington Post<\/a> \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a ridiculous idea, which is why it\u2019s so popular,\u201d said Heidi Marx, coordinator of the West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta. Giant\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2023\/10\/12\/pumpkin-world-record-michael-jordan\/\">pumpkin weigh-offs<\/a>\u00a0\u2014 where people win prizes for growing enormous pumpkins \u2014 have been aroundfor decades. But in recent years, some towns have turned those giant pumpkins into boats, making regattas a fall tradition in places like Damariscotta, Maine, South Jordan, Utah, and Elk Grove, California.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/2025\/10\/22\/giant-pumpkin-regatta-oregon\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"\/secure-location.php\" style=\"display: none;\" title=\"mwtGeteQ dsu HT\"><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post \u201cIt\u2019s kind of a ridiculous idea, which is why it\u2019s so popular,\u201d said Heidi Marx, coordinator of the West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta. Giant\u00a0pumpkin weigh-offs\u00a0\u2014 where people win prizes for growing enormous pumpkins \u2014 have been aroundfor decades. But in recent years, some towns have turned those giant pumpkins into boats, making regattas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coping-with-covid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-22-at-19.36.47.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10636,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10634\/revisions\/10636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}