{"id":3762,"date":"2008-09-04T09:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=3762"},"modified":"2008-09-04T09:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T14:48:00","slug":"i_cant_believe_this_is_new_york_city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/09\/i_cant_believe_this_is_new_york_city.html","title":{"rendered":"I Can&#8217;t Believe This Is New York City!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York should really have its own county fair, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/ny_local\/queens\/2008\/09\/03\/2008-09-03_woman_in_shock_over_giant_zucchini_-2.html\">an agricultural competition<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>A Queens woman has taken homegrown fruits and vegetables to a whole new level by cultivating a 6-foot-long zucchini in her backyard. <\/p>\n<p>Green-fingered Apollonia Castitlione grew the giant Long Italian zucchini during the warm summer months using nothing more than fertilizer, water and a little TLC. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve had my vegetable garden for 26 years, but I never saw anything so spectacular,&#8221; said Castitlione, who&#8217;s 5 feet tall. &#8220;I didn&#8217;t put Miracle Grow on it, nothing, just a little bit of 5-10-5 fertilizer, water and my time.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Castitlione, 48, said she noticed the giant fruit was growing longer than usual last month when it suddenly shot up a couple of inches in as many days. <\/p>\n<p>She then went on vacation to Boston for the weekend and returned to find it had shot up another 1.5 inches.<\/p>\n<p>At last count, the zucchini was just over 6 feet . . .<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York should really have its own county fair, with an agricultural competition: A Queens woman has taken homegrown fruits and vegetables to a whole new level by cultivating a 6-foot-long zucchini in her backyard. Green-fingered Apollonia Castitlione grew the giant Long Italian zucchini during the warm summer months using nothing more than fertilizer, water [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-huzzah","category-queens"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3762"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3763,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3762\/revisions\/3763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}