{"id":199,"date":"2012-11-04T17:26:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-04T23:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/andreslombana.net\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2012-11-05T19:22:12","modified_gmt":"2012-11-06T01:22:12","slug":"pumpkings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andreslombana.net\/blog\/2012\/11\/04\/pumpkings\/","title":{"rendered":"Spooky Pumpkings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"3<\/a><\/p>\n

My Chilean friend Alvaro invited me to a pumpkin party the weekend before Halloween. I told him I was not very familiar with the pumpkin tradition but liked the idea of meeting at night with friends and collaboratively work in the creation of the famous jack-o’-lanterns. Although I have enjoyed the passion that people in the USA have for Halloween rituals I have only participated in the costume festivities and never got involved in the carving. This year, however, was good for transforming pumpkins into spooky heads.
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\n\"lobotomia\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The transformative process requires as a sort of lobotomia. The top of the pumpkin head needs to be opened. <\/p>\n

\"empty<\/a><\/p>\n

After opening the top, one can proceed to empty the inside. With the help of a spoon and hand, one needs to take out all the seeds and as much pulp as possible. <\/p>\n

\"raspando\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Pulp and seeds can be saved in containers for later use in soups, cakes, or any kind of dishes.<\/p>\n

\"horror<\/a><\/p>\n

Once the pumpkin is empty one can proceed to anthropomorphize it. Add eyes, nose, eyebrows and mouth, and suddenly you have human-like face ready to be illuminated by a candle. In the dark of the night, the pumpkin made lanterns, also called jack-o’-lanterns, look spooky and evoke some sort of mysterious pagan ritual that remains unknown for me. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My Chilean friend Alvaro invited me to a pumpkin party the weekend before Halloween. I told him I was not very familiar with the pumpkin tradition but liked the idea of meeting at night with friends and collaboratively work in the creation of the famous jack-o’-lanterns. Although I have enjoyed the passion that people in…<\/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":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20],"tags":[353,352],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-meta","tag-halloween","tag-pumpkins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreslombana.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreslombana.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreslombana.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreslombana.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreslombana.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/andreslombana.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreslombana.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreslombana.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreslombana.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}