{"id":2,"date":"2015-02-02T14:25:47","date_gmt":"2015-02-02T14:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grandbaywatermelonfestival.org\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-02-07T21:33:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T21:33:37","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grandbaywatermelonfestival.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Watermelon Festival News 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"http:\/\/grandbaywatermelonfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2025-Poster.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of 2025 Poster.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-f49b6b69-8fb7-489a-a448-3b6ae2a7d46b\" href=\"http:\/\/grandbaywatermelonfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2025-Poster.pdf\">2025 Poster<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/grandbaywatermelonfestival.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/2025-Poster.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-f49b6b69-8fb7-489a-a448-3b6ae2a7d46b\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n<p>2026 will be the 52nd Annual Grand Bay Watermelon Festival!!!<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Bay Watermelon Festival is held at Odd Fellows Festival Park, located behind the GBAA ball field at: 10327 Taylor F. Harper Blvd., Grand Bay, AL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Our mailing address is:\u00a0 <br \/>P.O. Box 1022, Grand Bay, AL\u00a0 36541, and we can be contacted at: 251-865-3456.<\/p>\n<p>Our previous Programs, along with our Sponsors for each year, can be found under the Festival Programs tab.\u00a0 Our current Sponsors can be found under our 2026 Sponsors tab when they become available.<\/p>\n<p>Our Grand Bay Watermelon Festival Queen&#8217;s Pageant will be held on April 18th, and applications can be found on our Facebook page under the event.\u00a0 Our Grand Bay Watermelon Festival Pretty Baby Contest will also be held on April 18th. Those applications are also available on our Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>The 52nd Annual Grand Bay Watermelon Festival, will be held from 3 pm to 7 pm on July 3, 2026 <span class=\"text_exposed_show\">and full day on July 4th from 10 am to 5 pm.\u00a0 On the 3rd, which is our preview day, we don&#8217;t charge for parking and we will only have Arts &amp; Crafts vendors, rides, food vendors, and entertainment <em><strong>(but no watermelon yet)<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 On the 4th, admission is only $5 per vehicle, and in addition to our Arts &amp; Crafts vendors, rides, food vendors and entertainment, we will also have a Car Show, games, contests for all ages, and all the free, sliced, ice cold, sweet Grand Bay watermelon you can eat.\u00a0 We will also have a spectacular fireworks show at dusk.\u00a0 May God bless you and our Country!<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026 will be the 52nd Annual Grand Bay Watermelon Festival!!! The Grand Bay Watermelon Festival is held at Odd Fellows Festival Park, located behind the GBAA ball field at: 10327 Taylor F. Harper Blvd., Grand Bay, AL.\u00a0 Our mailing address is:\u00a0 P.O. Box 1022, Grand Bay, AL\u00a0 36541, and we can be contacted at: 251-865-3456. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/grandbaywatermelonfestival.org\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Watermelon Festival News 2026&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandbaywatermelonfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandbaywatermelonfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandbaywatermelonfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandbaywatermelonfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grandbaywatermelonfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":42,"href":"https:\/\/grandbaywatermelonfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":662,"href":"https:\/\/grandbaywatermelonfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grandbaywatermelonfestival.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}