{"id":8206,"date":"2010-08-09T15:40:40","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T12:40:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=8206"},"modified":"2010-08-09T15:48:43","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T12:48:43","slug":"turkmenistan-celebrates-melon-day-1824563","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkmenistan-celebrates-melon-day-1824563\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkmenistan Celebrates Melon Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/TurkmenistanMelonDay.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-8209\" title=\"Turkmenistan Celebrates Melon Day \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/TurkmenistanMelonDay-280x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"186\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/TurkmenistanMelonDay-280x186.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/TurkmenistanMelonDay-180x120.jpg 180w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/TurkmenistanMelonDay.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a>The Turkmen Melon Day festivities are launched in Ashgabat.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Traditionally, each year on the second Sunday of August the Turkmen people arrange the celebrations in honour of melon and gourd growers who grow these \u2018heavenly\u2019 fruits distinguished for unsurpassed taste properties and flavour.<\/p>\n<p>Melon Day is celebrated on the second Sunday of August. Melon Day is a national holiday in Turkmenistan. In 1994 Turkmenistan\u2019s previous president Saparmurat Niyazov established this holiday. The melon-growing is one of the important sectors of agriculture.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 12)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkmenistan Celebrates Melon Day <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,56,14],"tags":[11961,11967,11965,11962,11959,11960,11964],"class_list":["post-8206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-events","category-world","tag-melon-day","tag-melon-day-turkmen","tag-saparmurat-niyazov","tag-turkmenistan","tag-turkmenistan-celebrates-melon-day","tag-turkmenistan-melon-day","tag-turkmenistan-melon-day-2010"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}