{"id":147,"date":"2012-08-24T04:40:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T04:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2020-04-09T04:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T04:06:57","slug":"japanese-heart-shaped-watermelons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/japanese-heart-shaped-watermelons\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Heart-shaped watermelons"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_148\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/japan-heart-shaped-watermelons.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-148\" title=\"japan-heart-shaped-watermelons\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/japan-heart-shaped-watermelons-300x279.jpg\" alt=\"heart shaped watermelons\" width=\"300\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/japan-heart-shaped-watermelons-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/japan-heart-shaped-watermelons.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Japanese heart shaped watermelon innovation<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Heart-shaped watermelons are one of the the latest bizarre innovations to hit the streets of Japan. A farmer called Hiroichi Kimura and his wife are the masterminds behind its creation. It took the couple over three years to create a perfectly heart-shaped watermelon, which they say expresses their love for farming and their feelings towards each other. The watermelons grow into fulsome heart shapes without the aid of special equipment and are not genetically-modified in anyway. They come with a hefty tag price 15,750 yen ($160) each.<\/p>\n<p>You can also buy square, pyramid or even human face shaped watermelons via links on the following website: https:\/\/www.crown-melon.com\/square_melon.html<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heart-shaped watermelons are one of the the latest bizarre innovations to hit the streets of Japan. A farmer called Hiroichi Kimura and his wife are the masterminds behind its creation. It took the couple over three years to create a perfectly heart-shaped watermelon, which they say expresses their love for farming and their feelings towards [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[23,37],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bizarrefood.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}