{"id":3582,"date":"2026-03-26T00:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T04:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2025-12-11T21:00:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T02:00:48","slug":"popeye-statue-in-crystal-city-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=3582","title":{"rendered":"Popeye Statue in Crystal City, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19105\" src=\"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Popeye.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"112\" height=\"194\" \/>Spinach farmers in Crystal City, Texas, built a statue of Popeye in 1937<\/strong>. About half the spinach consumed in the United States is grown in Texas. China is the world&#8217;s leading producer of spinach. Children can learn about spinach and its nutritional values at:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kidsgrowingstrong.org\/spinach\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spinach<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spinach farmers in Crystal City, Texas, built a statue of Popeye in 1937. About half the spinach consumed in the United States is grown in Texas. China is the world&#8217;s leading producer of spinach. Children can learn about spinach and its nutritional values at:\u00a0Spinach.<\/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":[4616,3568,5436,3567,3565,3566,257],"class_list":["post-3582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4616","tag-crystal-city","tag-march-26","tag-popeye","tag-spinach","tag-spinach-farmers","tag-texas","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\/3582","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=3582"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22131,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions\/22131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}