{"id":1281,"date":"2012-10-31T18:02:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-31T22:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.leedscivic.org\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2012-10-31T18:02:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-31T22:02:14","slug":"carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"Carving up a Storm&#8230;The Great Leeds Pumpkin Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1147 alignright\" style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" title=\"Pumpkin-Party-Web-Button\" src=\"http:\/\/www.leedscivic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Pumpkin-Party-Web-Button.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"258\" height=\"194\" \/>A woman walked up to her stoop cradling in her arms some new purchase. She was overheard saying to her neighbor, \u201cLook at this gourd. Doesn\u2019t it look just like a RAT?\u201d A boy walking home from Leeds School was overheard saying to his buddy, \u201cThis is the first year I get to carve!\u201d The anticipation was building for the Great Leeds Pumpkin Contest which was held on the clear moonlit night of October 27th.<\/p>\n<p>The new venue at Upland and Chestnut was ideal for the large gathering of Leeds folk who really know how to get into the spirit of Halloween. Cheering kids followed their pumpkins down the hill to see if theirs crossed the finish line first. Neighbors young and old criss-crossed the roadside pumpkin gallery to take in the creativity on display by our community and vote for their favorites. They saw four pumpkins transformed into a punk rock band, a space alien, a discoteque, a Las Vegas Elvis Presley, a gorilla face, a Good Night Moon Mouse House that offered a view through the window to a fully furnished room with a happy mouse family munching on<br \/>\ngummy bears and enjoying the glow of a working fireplace! One pumpkin was turned into a gorgeous full lipped lady with an autumn leaf hairdo, another an upside down pig face, five carved pumpkins stacked became a totem pole while eight in a row spelled out \u201cFrankenstorm.\u201d Pumpkin party revellers enjoyed homemade soups, baked potatoes with the fixins\u2019 and other treats while listening to Shawn Gundersen\u2019s line up of spooky tunes and comic banter.<\/p>\n<p>Jim Montgomery of Grove Avenue won first prize for his delightful mousehouse and went home with the coveted rosemary apple pie baked by Ananda Lennox. The adorable trick-or-treating ghost with glowing eyes and mouth, and carrying a tiny pumpkin filled with candy corn was made by Anna Rosen and won first prize in the youth contest. Each and every pumpkin carved, decorated and displayed was ooohed and ahhhed over&#8230;including the RAT!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the many helping hands and pumpkin carvers for making this event so fun!<\/p>\n<p><strong>A complete list of pumpkin winners and photographs can be viewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leedscivic.org\/2012\/10\/31\/pumpkin-contest\/\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo galleries of this event can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leedscivic.org\/2012\/10\/31\/pumpkin-party-2012-photo-galleries\/\">here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A woman walked up to her stoop cradling in her arms some new purchase. She was overheard saying to her neighbor, \u201cLook at this gourd. Doesn\u2019t it look just like a RAT?\u201d A boy walking home from Leeds School was overheard saying to his buddy, \u201cThis is the first year I get to carve!\u201d The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Carving up a Storm...The Great Leeds Pumpkin Contest - Leeds Civic Association<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Carving up a Storm...The Great Leeds Pumpkin Contest - Leeds Civic Association\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A woman walked up to her stoop cradling in her arms some new purchase. She was overheard saying to her neighbor, \u201cLook at this gourd. Doesn\u2019t it look just like a RAT?\u201d A boy walking home from Leeds School was overheard saying to his buddy, \u201cThis is the first year I get to carve!\u201d The [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Leeds Civic Association\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2012-10-31T22:02:14+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.leedscivic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Pumpkin-Party-Web-Button.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"justin\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"justin\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"justin\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/16138306f057305270a5c3e48375c0f9\"},\"headline\":\"Carving up a Storm&#8230;The Great Leeds Pumpkin Contest\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-10-31T22:02:14+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":384,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.leedscivic.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/10\\\/Pumpkin-Party-Web-Button.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Events\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\\\/\",\"name\":\"Carving up a Storm...The Great Leeds Pumpkin Contest - Leeds Civic Association\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.leedscivic.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/10\\\/Pumpkin-Party-Web-Button.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-10-31T22:02:14+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/16138306f057305270a5c3e48375c0f9\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.leedscivic.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/10\\\/Pumpkin-Party-Web-Button.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.leedscivic.org\\\/wp-content\\\/uploads\\\/2012\\\/10\\\/Pumpkin-Party-Web-Button.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Carving up a Storm&#8230;The Great Leeds Pumpkin Contest\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/\",\"name\":\"Leeds Civic Association\",\"description\":\"The village of Leeds Mass\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/16138306f057305270a5c3e48375c0f9\",\"name\":\"justin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/892b71684c6c8fda94ac017c68d2697e670f4942fbfa8a874591cb6e033a738d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/892b71684c6c8fda94ac017c68d2697e670f4942fbfa8a874591cb6e033a738d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/secure.gravatar.com\\\/avatar\\\/892b71684c6c8fda94ac017c68d2697e670f4942fbfa8a874591cb6e033a738d?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"justin\"},\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/leedscivic.org\\\/leeds2\\\/author\\\/justin\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Carving up a Storm...The Great Leeds Pumpkin Contest - Leeds Civic Association","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Carving up a Storm...The Great Leeds Pumpkin Contest - Leeds Civic Association","og_description":"A woman walked up to her stoop cradling in her arms some new purchase. She was overheard saying to her neighbor, \u201cLook at this gourd. Doesn\u2019t it look just like a RAT?\u201d A boy walking home from Leeds School was overheard saying to his buddy, \u201cThis is the first year I get to carve!\u201d The [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/","og_site_name":"Leeds Civic Association","article_published_time":"2012-10-31T22:02:14+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/www.leedscivic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Pumpkin-Party-Web-Button.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"justin","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"justin","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/"},"author":{"name":"justin","@id":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/#\/schema\/person\/16138306f057305270a5c3e48375c0f9"},"headline":"Carving up a Storm&#8230;The Great Leeds Pumpkin Contest","datePublished":"2012-10-31T22:02:14+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/"},"wordCount":384,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.leedscivic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Pumpkin-Party-Web-Button.jpg","articleSection":["Events","News"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/","url":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/","name":"Carving up a Storm...The Great Leeds Pumpkin Contest - Leeds Civic Association","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.leedscivic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Pumpkin-Party-Web-Button.jpg","datePublished":"2012-10-31T22:02:14+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/#\/schema\/person\/16138306f057305270a5c3e48375c0f9"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.leedscivic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Pumpkin-Party-Web-Button.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.leedscivic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Pumpkin-Party-Web-Button.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/carving-up-a-storm-the-great-leeds-pumpkin-contest\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Carving up a Storm&#8230;The Great Leeds Pumpkin Contest"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/#website","url":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/","name":"Leeds Civic Association","description":"The village of Leeds Mass","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/#\/schema\/person\/16138306f057305270a5c3e48375c0f9","name":"justin","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/892b71684c6c8fda94ac017c68d2697e670f4942fbfa8a874591cb6e033a738d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/892b71684c6c8fda94ac017c68d2697e670f4942fbfa8a874591cb6e033a738d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/892b71684c6c8fda94ac017c68d2697e670f4942fbfa8a874591cb6e033a738d?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"justin"},"url":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/author\/justin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leedscivic.org\/leeds2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}