{"id":343780,"date":"2010-02-20T15:31:37","date_gmt":"2010-02-20T20:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"1832 at http:\/\/atlasobscura.com"},"modified":"2010-02-20T15:31:37","modified_gmt":"2010-02-20T20:31:37","slug":"the-giant-lemon-of-lemon-grove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/343780","title":{"rendered":"The Giant Lemon of Lemon Grove"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/california\/san-diego-county\">San Diego County<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/globe\/north-america\/us\/california\">California<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/atlasobscura.com\/categories\/unusual-monuments\">Unusual Monuments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Discovered on January 8, 2003, by Aharon Shemoel on his farm in Kefar Zeitim, Israel, was a lemon weighing an astonishing 11 pounds and 9.7 ounces, making it officially the world&#8217;s largest lemon. This sour giant, however, has nothing on the much less edible lemon found somewhat east of San Diego in the small town of Lemon Grove. <\/p>\n<p>In Lemon Grove (named for its famous lemons) is an enormous lemon about ten feet long and several feet high. It lies inside a small lemon grove near the Orange Line trolley tracks, and its concrete base sports the words &#8220;Best Climate On Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the town doesn&#8217;t claim to have the &#8220;World&#8217;s Largest Lemon&#8221;\u2014but the lemon of Lemon Grove is certainly extremely large enough to qualify.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.atlasobscura.com\/files\/imagecache\/place_main\/place_images\/156569670_90ce3e892f_o.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"  width=\"280\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego County, California | Unusual Monuments Discovered on January 8, 2003, by Aharon Shemoel on his farm in Kefar Zeitim, Israel, was a lemon weighing an astonishing 11 pounds and 9.7 ounces, making it officially the world&#8217;s largest lemon. This sour giant, however, has nothing on the much less edible lemon found somewhat east [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}