{"id":354025,"date":"2026-06-29T03:08:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/354025\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T03:08:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T03:08:25","slug":"watermelon-thump-draws-thousands-to-luling-texas-see-the-best-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/354025\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon Thump draws thousands to Luling, Texas, see the best photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Early Saturday morning, traffic begins to back up as roads are closed throughout downtown Luling, Texas for the annual Watermelon Thump Parade.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of floats, trailers, vehicles and performers take to the streets for the short route lined with spectators.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after, the festivities truly begin as registration opens for the famous watermelon eating contest at the pavilion.<\/p>\n<p>Spectators then pack the pavilion for a full afternoon of watermelon eating, seed spitting and the Champion Melon auction.<\/p>\n<p>See the photos from the 73rd Luling Watermelon Thump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Early Saturday morning, traffic begins to back up as roads are closed throughout downtown Luling, Texas for the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[41575,125991,27,29,28,101358],"class_list":["post-354025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-luling","tag-luling-watermelon-thump","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-watermelon-thump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}