{"id":545,"date":"2018-10-29T17:16:49","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T17:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=545"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:20:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T14:20:38","slug":"home-halloween-pumpkin-carving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"Home: Halloween Pumpkin Carving."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_546\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-546\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0619-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpkin\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0619-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0619-768x574.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0619-1024x765.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-546\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our Halloween pumpkin, for 2018.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Teresa asked me to carve the pumpkin today. I scooped out the seeds, and most of the sticky, stringy innards, before using an ice-cream scoop to get the flesh out. Looking forward to pumpkin pie, and pumpkin soup!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_547\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-547\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-547\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0620-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpkin\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0620-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0620-768x574.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0620-1024x765.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-547\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A slightly spookier angle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I prefer to go for old-fashioned simple designs. This is my most trad\/goofy so far. I&#8217;ve kept the seeds for planting, and the flesh for eating. Wooo, ooo-woooh-oooh&#8230; ha, ha, ha, ha&#8230;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Of course I did some work in my shed. I got the heater I had off Freecycle a while back working, and I cut down my home-made laminated top for the &#8216;tool chest&#8217;.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_550\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-550\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-550\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0621-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Chest\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0621-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0621-768x574.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0621-1024x765.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Put my laminated top on the chest, and painted it.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was hoping to do some trim for the shelves in the lounge, but I&#8217;ve kind of run out of steam now. I might still do it, later this evening. But at present I feel exhausted. Tired enough I could easily go to sleep here and now; it&#8217;s only 5.30 pm! I felt a bit off colour today, probably\u00a0on account of the flu jab I had (as did Teresa) at the weekend.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_570\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-570\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-570\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0654-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpkin\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0654-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0654-768x574.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0654-1024x765.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-570\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pumpkin flesh, in&#8217;t fridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here are pics of the pumpkin flesh &#8211; still quite a bit &#8211; even after using half, or thereabouts, to make the soup. Which, though I say it myself, is delicious!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_571\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-571\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-571\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0655-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpkin\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0655-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0655-768x574.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IMG_0655-1024x765.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-571\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pumpkin soup, also in&#8217;t fridge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teresa asked me to carve the pumpkin today. I scooped out the seeds, and most of the sticky, stringy innards, before using an ice-cream scoop to get the flesh out. Looking forward to pumpkin pie, and pumpkin soup! I prefer to go for old-fashioned simple designs. This is my most trad\/goofy so far. I&#8217;ve kept &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=545\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Home: Halloween Pumpkin Carving.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paGwUa-8N","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":572,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}