{"id":84743,"date":"2013-10-16T11:45:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T15:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=84743"},"modified":"2015-12-14T11:25:34","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T16:25:34","slug":"giant-pumpkin-visits-uconn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/10\/giant-pumpkin-visits-uconn\/","title":{"rendered":"Giant Pumpkin Visits UConn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UConn alum Matthew DeBacco &#039;07 (CANR), &#039;11 stopped by the Storrs campus Monday with his 1,766.5 pound pumpkin. It is the heaviest pumpkin in New England this year and now holds the Connecticut state record. <em>The Daily Campus<\/em> reports that DeBacco fed the pumpkin 80 gallons of water a day, and it gained 40 to 50 pounds a day during its peak.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_84736\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84736\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pumpkin-1-Copy.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84736  img-responsive lazyload\" alt=\"Matthew DeBacco &#039;07 (CANR), &#039;11 brought Connecticut&#039;s state record-holding pumpkin to the W.B. Young building to show it off. At 1,766.5 lbs it is New England&#039;s Heaviest Pumpkin in 2013.\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pumpkin-1-Copy.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"186\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 275px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 275\/186;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84736\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Matthew DeBacco &#039;07 (CANR), &#039;11 brought Connecticut&#039;s state record-holding pumpkin to the W.B. Young building to show it off.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_84737\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84737\" style=\"width: 275px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pumpkin-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84737   img-responsive lazyload\" alt=\"Matthew DeBacco &#039;07, &#039;11 (CANR) brought Connecticut&#039;s state record-holding pumpkin to the W.B. Young building to show it off. At 1,766.5 lbs it is New England&#039;s Heaviest Pumpkin in 2013!\" data-src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pumpkin-2.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pumpkin-2.jpg 630w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pumpkin-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Pumpkin-2-150x100.jpg 150w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 275px) 100vw, 275px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 275px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 275\/183;\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-84737\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At 1,766.5 lbs, DeBacco&#039;s pumpkin is New England&#039;s heaviest pumpkin in 2013.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alumnus Matthew DeBacco &#8217;07 (CANR) brought his state record-holding 1,766 pound pumpkin to campus this week. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":84736,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[117],"class_list":["post-84743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-13 04:40:01","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84743"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107180,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84743\/revisions\/107180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/84736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84743"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=84743"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=84743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}