{"id":7723,"date":"2024-09-25T11:46:40","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T16:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/?p=7723"},"modified":"2024-09-25T11:46:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T16:46:44","slug":"giant-pumpkin-weigh-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/2024\/09\/25\/giant-pumpkin-weigh-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Pumpkin Weigh Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>Wayne Bishop, owner of Bishop\u2019s Pumpkin Farm in Wheatland, likes that the National Pumpkin Weigh-Off event, which will be held for the second year on Saturday at his farm, benefits the community.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt brings attention to Yuba County and Wheatland, and then the best thing about it is that we\u2019re getting kids interested in agriculture again,\u201d Bishop said. \u201cWe just had a couple of entries last year in the youth division, and this year, we think that we might have between five and 10 entries. If we can keep growing that part of the contest like that, that\u2019s really my goal. I want to see kids doing this.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The intention to rope in kids aligns with the pumpkin farm\u2019s roots. Bishop\u2019s parents started the farm, and his mom had been a teacher. She knew that kids just didn\u2019t know a lot about agriculture, and she wanted to get kids to come on a farm during a field trip.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wayne Bishop, owner of Bishop\u2019s Pumpkin Farm in Wheatland, likes that the National Pumpkin Weigh-Off event, which will be held for the second year on Saturday at his farm, benefits the community.&nbsp; \u201cIt brings attention to Yuba County and Wheatland, and then the best thing about it is that we\u2019re getting kids interested in agriculture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7724,"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-7723","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\/2024\/09\/Screenshot-2024-09-25-at-12.43.37.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723","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=7723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7725,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7723\/revisions\/7725"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unmc.edu\/healthsecurity\/transmission\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}