{"id":8128,"date":"2024-10-27T05:51:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T09:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=8128"},"modified":"2024-10-26T17:52:44","modified_gmt":"2024-10-26T21:52:44","slug":"celebrating-national-pumpkin-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/?p=8128","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating National Pumpkin Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Lyon<br \/>\n<em>EE\u00a0<\/em>News Editor<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the autumn season continues, people nationwide recognized pumpkin day on October 26th with seasonal food and fall flair!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dating back to somewhere between 7000 and 5500 BC, pumpkin <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">originates from the word <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">pepon<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which means &#8220;large melon&#8221; in Greek. However, the squash is actually native to North America, with the first evidence of pumpkin-related seeds being found in Mexico.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within recent years, pumpkins have become more popular in the United States among people. In fact, today the United States produces 1.5 billion pounds of pumpkins, with Illinois producing more than any other state for people to enjoy. The popularity is not only a cause of celebrating the fall season, but studies have found that pumpkins are packed with nutrients and vitamin C for humans and pets such as dogs and cats, and may be recommended by veterinarians as a dietary supplement.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To commemorate pumpkins and the fall season, many carve up the scariest jack-o-lantern or whip up the tastiest batch of pumpkin bars. Others roast pumpkin seeds while the family rakes up those fall leaves or bake up their favorite pumpkin recipes, too.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Overall, National Pumpkin Day is a day worth celebrating as they provide people greater health and happiness!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Lyon EE\u00a0News Editor As the autumn season continues, people nationwide recognized pumpkin day on October 26th with seasonal food and fall flair!\u00a0 Dating back to somewhere between 7000 and 5500 BC,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8128"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8132,"href":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8128\/revisions\/8132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thseagleseye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}