{"id":796,"date":"2012-03-09T09:14:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T09:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/?p=796"},"modified":"2017-06-13T07:28:16","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T07:28:16","slug":"winter-is-officially-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/winter-is-officially-over\/","title":{"rendered":"WINTER IS OFFICIALLY OVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/index.php\/2012\/03\/winter-is-officially-over\/watermelon-bin\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2446\" title=\"watermelon bin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whataboutwatermelon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/watermelon-bin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"554\" height=\"400\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spring arrived last week, at least according to the calendar and the weather guy on my local news, but I don\u2019t <em>really <\/em>consider it spring until a bin full of watermelon shows up in the produce aisle of my grocery store.<\/p>\n<p>I snapped the photo above on Saturday. When I spotted it, my face lit up like a kid on Christmas morning and I let out a loud \u201cWhoa!\u201d, which probably startled the little old lady standing next to me at the green pepper display.<\/p>\n<p>Depending on where you live, a watermelon bin might be old news, but living in the northeast United States, it was a thing of beauty after an otherwise boring and dreary winter. Has anyone else seen watermelon bins in their local grocery store? If so, where are you from and when did they arrive?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring arrived last week, at least according to the calendar and the weather guy on my local news, but I don\u2019t really consider it spring until a bin full of watermelon shows up in the produce aisle of my grocery store. I snapped the photo above on Saturday. 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