{"id":17916,"date":"2012-02-23T00:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T00:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fukuoka-now.com?post_type=news&#038;p=17916"},"modified":"2012-02-23T03:47:52","modified_gmt":"2012-02-23T03:47:52","slug":"years-first-watermelon-shipments-from-kumamoto","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/years-first-watermelon-shipments-from-kumamoto\/","title":{"rendered":"<!--:zh-->Year\u2019s First Watermelon Shipments from Kumamoto <!--:--><!--:en-->Year\u2019s First Watermelon Shipments from Kumamoto <!--:--><!--:ja-->Year\u2019s First Watermelon Shipments from Kumamoto <!--:--><!--:ko-->Year\u2019s First Watermelon Shipments from Kumamoto <!--:-->"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--:en-->The year\u2019s first watermelon shipment was sent from Ueki-machi in Kumamoto Prefecture, the area that produces the most watermelons in Japan. The 2,800 melons were grown in greenhouses and range from four to five kilograms each, which is slightly above average. They\u2019ll be sold for 4,000-5,000 yen in Tokyo and Osaka department stores. JA Kumamoto estimates they\u2019ll ship 2.4 million melons by early July.<!--:--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The year\u2019s first watermelon shipment was sent from Ueki-machi in Kumamoto Prefecture, the area that produces the most watermelons in Japan. The 2,800 melons were grown in greenhouses and range from four to five kilograms each, which is slightly above average. They\u2019ll be sold for 4,000-5,000 yen in Tokyo and Osaka department stores. JA Kumamoto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-17916","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/17916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}