{"id":428740,"date":"2026-02-16T13:50:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428740\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T13:50:07","slug":"devon-sculptor-comes-second-in-italian-snow-carving-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/428740\/","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":428741,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-428740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}