{"id":27779,"date":"2026-08-03T00:05:45","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T04:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27779"},"modified":"2025-12-15T17:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T22:25:17","slug":"national-watermelon-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27779","title":{"rendered":"National Watermelon Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>National Watermelon Day is today!<\/strong> Over 1,200 types of watermelon are grown. The watermelon plant is a vine that remains on the ground, and the watermelon is actually a type of berry called a pepo. A watermelon is composed of about 92% water with sugar making up the remainder. Watermelon is high in lycopene and contains other vitamins and minerals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Watermelon Day is today! Over 1,200 types of watermelon are grown. The watermelon plant is a vine that remains on the ground, and the watermelon is actually a type of berry called a pepo. A watermelon is composed of about 92% water with sugar making up the remainder. Watermelon is high in lycopene and <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=27779' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27782,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27779\/revisions\/27782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}