{"id":299450,"date":"2025-10-13T08:23:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/299450\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T08:23:15","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T08:23:15","slug":"houston-pumpkin-festival-draws-large-crowds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/299450\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston Pumpkin Festival draws large crowds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<br \/>\n                                                <a href=\"\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                &#13;<br \/>\n                    \/                                                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            <\/a>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<\/p>\n<p>1 \/ 4<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"slide\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Festival-1200x900.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh band Built for Speed performed classic rock and rockabilly at the Houston Pumpkin Festival Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Andreassi\/Observer-Reporter<\/p>\n<p>2 \/ 4<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"slide\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Festival3-1200x900.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Huge crowds turned out to the Pumpkin Festival to check out the dozens of vendors present there.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Andreassi\/Observer-Reporter<\/p>\n<p>3 \/ 4<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"slide\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Festival2-1200x900.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Pony rides were one of many attractions at the Pumpkin Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Andreassi\/Observer-Reporter<\/p>\n<p>4 \/ 4<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"slide\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Festival4-1200x900.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>There were several attractions for kids at the Pumpkin Festival, including rock climbing and a bounce house.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Andreassi\/Observer-Reporter<\/p>\n<p>            <a class=\"prev next_prev_slide\" onclick=\"plusSlides(-1)\"><\/a><br \/>\n            <a class=\"next next_prev_slide\" onclick=\"plusSlides(1)\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            [expand]<\/p>\n<p>        close<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Houston hosted its 42nd annual Pumpkin Festival over the weekend, which saw huge crowds and warm weather. The event ran from Friday to Sunday and had dozens of vendors, food trucks and attractions. On Saturday morning there was a \u201cPumpkin Parade\u201d along Pike Street, and Pittsburgh band Built for Speed performed on the festival\u2019s main stage.<\/p>\n<p>            &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n                        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; &#13; \/ &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; 1 \/ 4 Pittsburgh band Built for Speed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":299451,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[2576,990,4345,975,152500,358,3187,10435,8838],"class_list":{"0":"post-299450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-event","9":"tag-food","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-music","12":"tag-pumpkin-festival","13":"tag-texas","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-vendors","16":"tag-washington-county"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115365899127121887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}