{"id":483805,"date":"2026-02-16T14:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483805\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T14:17:08","slug":"devon-sculptor-comes-second-in-italian-snow-carving-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/483805\/","title":{"rendered":"Devon sculptor comes second in Italian snow carving competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The carvers were given three days to sculpt a 3m-cubed (106ft-cubed) block of snow using only tools, more snow and water. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Teams were tasked with illustrating the theme of fair play and Unwin said the sculpture she designed was &#8220;ridiculously complicated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;It was so difficult to work it out but we did actually do it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At about four o&#8217;clock on the last day, I was sort of thinking: &#8216;I don&#8217;t know if it&#8217;s going to work,&#8217; but it did. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was a bit rough around the edges, but it was snowing quite a bit, so it covered up the mistakes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;We came second which is just very exciting because there were some really good ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The carvers were given three days to sculpt a 3m-cubed (106ft-cubed) block of snow using only tools, more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":483806,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134],"class_list":["post-483805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483805\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}