{"id":163030,"date":"2022-09-03T20:15:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T03:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=163030"},"modified":"2022-09-03T20:15:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T03:15:00","slug":"video-nebraska-man-tries-for-world-record-in-pumpkin-sailing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=163030","title":{"rendered":"Video &#8211; Nebraska man tries for world record in pumpkin sailing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">Duane Hansen says he knew if he wanted to break the world record for pumpkin sailing, he had to grow the pumpkin himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">A farmer in Nebraska who&#8217;s been growing 200\u2013400-pound gourds for a decade, Hansen appeared well-suited for the task.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">So, when his giant pumpkin, Berta, started adding 15 pounds per day, he got to work on his plan to turn it into a makeshift boat, one he says would carry him 38 miles down the Missouri River, from Bellevue to Nebraska City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"fnmMv geuMB alqtB wqIGQ\">This past Saturday, in an 846-pound pumpkin\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/nebraska-man-world-record-pumpkin-sailing\/story?id=89174556\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pictures &amp; More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duane Hansen says he knew if he wanted to break the world record for pumpkin sailing, he had to grow the pumpkin himself. A farmer in Nebraska who&#8217;s been growing 200\u2013400-pound gourds for a decade, Hansen appeared well-suited for the task. So, when his giant pumpkin, Berta, started adding 15 pounds per day, he got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,28,11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boating","category-kayak-canoe-rafting","category-misc","category-sailing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163031,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163030\/revisions\/163031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}