{"id":1843,"date":"2016-02-13T21:18:07","date_gmt":"2016-02-13T13:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/13\/when-life-gives-you-tons-of-lemons-make-masterpieces-for-the-lemon-festival\/"},"modified":"2016-02-13T21:18:07","modified_gmt":"2016-02-13T13:18:07","slug":"when-life-gives-you-tons-of-lemons-make-masterpieces-for-the-lemon-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/13\/when-life-gives-you-tons-of-lemons-make-masterpieces-for-the-lemon-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"When life gives you tons of lemons, make masterpieces for the Lemon Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lemonfestival83_thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.3.mshcdn.com\/media\/ZgkyMDE2LzAyLzEzLzI1L0xlbW9uRmVzdGl2Ljc2ZDJlLmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTU3NXgzMjMjCmUJanBn\/5016c5f1\/280\/LemonFestival83_Thumbnail.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=When+life+gives+you+tons+of+lemons%2C+make+masterpieces+for+the+Lemon+Festival&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F13%2Ffrance-lemon-festival%2F\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F02%2F13%2Ffrance-lemon-festival%2F&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/rack.1.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Life gave you lemons. So what kind of intricately structured tower are you going to make out of them?<\/p>\n<p>Saturday is the first day of the annual Lemon Festival \u2014 the F\u00eate du Citron \u2014 in Menton, France, which is now in its 83rd year. The installations are already standing in all their citrus glory in the town&#8217;s park, Jardins Biov\u00e8s. About 240,000 people typically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibtimes.co.uk\/menton-lemon-festival-2016-pretty-town-transformed-thousands-tons-fruit-1543320\" target=\"_blank\">head there<\/a> to view the regal fruit sculptures, which include both lemons and oranges.<\/p>\n<p>The masterpieces are composed of more than 290,000 pounds of fruit; the theme for this year&#8217;s festival is &#8220;Cinecitt\u00e0,&#8221; a nod to the legacy of Italian film. The structures are almost exact replicas of scenes from Fellini&#8217;s <em>La Dolce Vita<\/em> and <em>Amarcord<\/em>, as well as Pierotti and Tourjansky&#8217;s <em>Cleopatra<\/em>, among others. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/02\/13\/france-lemon-festival\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/pics\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Pics<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/photography\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Photography<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/festivals\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Festivals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/watercooler\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watercooler<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/viral\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Viral<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/hF469408ndk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life gave you lemons. So what kind of intricately structured tower are you going to make out of them? Saturday is the first day of the annual Lemon Festival \u2014 the F\u00eate du Citron \u2014 in Menton, France, which is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/02\/13\/when-life-gives-you-tons-of-lemons-make-masterpieces-for-the-lemon-festival\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1348,954,754,1068,735],"class_list":["post-1843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-festivals","tag-photography","tag-pics","tag-viral","tag-watercooler"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}