{"id":44,"date":"2026-10-06T12:38:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T12:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-halloween\/carving-pumpkins-that-last-until-the-31st\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T23:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T23:48:19","slug":"carving-pumpkins-that-last-until-the-31st","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-halloween\/carving-pumpkins-that-last-until-the-31st\/","title":{"rendered":"Carving pumpkins that last until the 31st"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A carved pumpkin starts to soften after three or four days, so carve in the last week of October, not the first.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scrape the inside walls thin where the face is, so the light shows through, and wipe the cut edges with a little petroleum jelly to slow drying. Keep it outside or somewhere cool until the night.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Battery tea lights are safer than candles and do not cook the lid. We sell them in packs of twelve at the counter (example prices).<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carve late, keep them cool and use battery lights: a pumpkin carved in the last week looks good on the night (sample).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-halloween"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/69"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elementor.ltheme.com\/lt-halloween\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}