{"id":18381,"date":"2025-08-04T03:37:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T03:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/photo-the-watermelon-eating-contest-at-the-montezuma-county-fair\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T04:03:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T04:03:31","slug":"photo-the-watermelon-eating-contest-at-the-montezuma-county-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/photo-the-watermelon-eating-contest-at-the-montezuma-county-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo: The watermelon-eating contest at the Montezuma County Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=9dbdeb75-a6c2-5d71-9bcd-b8590dc47254&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1379\" alt=\"Youngsters devour watermelon slices as quickly as they can during the watermelon eating contest Saturday morning. (Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Youngsters devour watermelon slices as quickly as they can during the watermelon eating contest Saturday morning. (Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youngsters devour watermelon slices as quickly as they can during the watermelon eating contest Saturday morning. (Erika Alvero\/Special to The Journal)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-18381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20557,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18381\/revisions\/20557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18381"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=18381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}