{"id":688,"date":"2011-10-08T15:30:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-08T15:30:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/?p=688"},"modified":"2017-06-08T15:30:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T15:30:46","slug":"october-prize-the-watermelon-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2011\/10\/october-prize-the-watermelon-king\/","title":{"rendered":"OCTOBER PRIZE: \u201cTHE WATERMELON KING\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"sIFR-replaced\"><object id=\"sIFR_replacement_8\" class=\"sIFR-flash\" data=\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/wp-content\/themes\/watermelon\/sifr\/ArialRoundedBold.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" name=\"sIFR_replacement_8\" width=\"550\" height=\"35\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/object><span id=\"sIFR_replacement_8_alternate\" class=\"sIFR-alternate\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1842\" title=\"book\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/book.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a>I don\u2019t know about you, but I do most of my reading in the fall and winter. I think a lot of people are that way. It gets cold out and people spend more time indoors. Maybe you light a fire and pour some hot cocoa. It\u2019s the perfect book-reading scenario.<\/p>\n<p>With that in mind, this month\u2019s prize is a novel by Daniel Wallace called \u201cThe Watermelon King.\u201d Some of you may know Daniel as the author of \u201cBig Fish,\u201d which got the big Hollywood movie treatment back in the mid-90s. \u201cBig Fish\u201d was set in the fictional town of Ashland, Alabama, and \u201cThe Watermelon King\u201d is, too.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace\u2019s Ashland is the former Watermelon Capital of the World. An excerpt from the book\u2019s opening chapter explains how the town got this title:<\/p>\n<p><em>Once upon a long time ago, beneath this sun, in these fields, our world was full of watermelons. Everywhere you looked there were watermelons. You couldn\u2019t walk without stepping on them. 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