{"id":15191,"date":"2016-10-29T07:32:33","date_gmt":"2016-10-29T14:32:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/?p=15191"},"modified":"2016-10-27T18:34:21","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T01:34:21","slug":"guy-paddled-river-giant-pumpkin-set-unofficial-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/2016\/10\/29\/guy-paddled-river-giant-pumpkin-set-unofficial-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"This Guy Paddled Down a River in a GIANT PUMPKIN!!! Set Unofficial World Record!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Row row row your pumpkin, gently down the stream&#8230;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15197\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pumpkin-Paddler-Rick-Swenson.jpg\" alt=\"pumpkin-paddler-rick-swenson\" \/>\n<p><strong>This is Rick Swenson of Fergus Falls, Minnesota and he&#8217;s just set the (unofficial) World Record for Longest Distance Paddled in a PUMPKIN!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"899\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15193\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pumpkin-Paddler-Rick-Swenson-2.jpg\" alt=\"pumpkin-paddler-rick-swenson-2\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pumpkin-Paddler-Rick-Swenson-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Pumpkin-Paddler-Rick-Swenson-2-456x640.jpg 456w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grandforksherald.com\/outdoors\/4137521-fergus-falls-man-sets-out-claim-world-pumpkin-paddling-record-red-river#.WATeXr7xSng.twitter\">He paddled\u00a025.6 miles<\/a> along the Red River in this GIANT carved-out pumpkin that he&#8217;s been growing for SIX YEARS!! It weighs about\u00a01,086 pounds!!\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>It took him almost 14 HOURS to get from\u00a0Grand Forks, North Dakota to Oslo, Minnesota!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"738\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15196\" src=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rick-Swenson.jpg\" alt=\"rick-swenson\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rick-Swenson.jpg 640w, https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Rick-Swenson-555x640.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>\n<p><strong>He&#8217;s waiting to hear from Guinness Book of World Records to see if it will be an OFFICIAL record!!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Way to go, Rick!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>images by <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.grandforksherald.com\/outdoors\/4137521-fergus-falls-man-sets-out-claim-world-pumpkin-paddling-record-red-river#.WATeXr7xSng.twitter\">Brad Dokken<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em><a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EDavisNagel\/status\/791786535372873728\">Thanks, Ed<\/a>!\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Row row row your pumpkin, gently down the stream&#8230; This is Rick Swenson of Fergus Falls, Minnesota and he&#8217;s just set the (unofficial) World Record for Longest Distance Paddled in a PUMPKIN!! He paddled\u00a025.6 miles along the Red River in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cool","category-interesting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15201,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15191\/revisions\/15201"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peewee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}