{"id":10398,"date":"2025-10-21T19:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10398\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T19:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T19:20:09","slug":"the-great-pumpkin-returns-to-erie-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/10398\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Pumpkin Returns to Erie | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"pump.png\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>It may not be Halloween, but the Great Pumpkin has returned, and it&#8217;s at the City of Erie&#8217;s Fire Department, Engine 13.<\/p>\n<p>Weighing in at 780 pounds, it is out for passersby to see at the East 28th Street location.<\/p>\n<p>John Stewart, Engine 13 driver, planted this pumpkin on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, a local artist, Twila Zellefrow, spent almost eight hours carving, sculpting, and shading the pumpkin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It may not be Halloween, but the Great Pumpkin has returned, and it&#8217;s at the City of Erie&#8217;s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[8380,8381,8379,136,138,137,732,8378],"class_list":{"0":"post-10398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-erie","8":"tag-carving","9":"tag-decorations","10":"tag-engine-13","11":"tag-erie","12":"tag-erie-headlines","13":"tag-erie-news","14":"tag-halloween","15":"tag-pumpkins"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}