{"id":609868,"date":"2026-05-29T07:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609868\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T07:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:09:08","slug":"cambridgeshire-young-farmers-compete-for-best-straw-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/609868\/","title":{"rendered":"Cambridgeshire young farmers compete for best straw sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Straw bale sculptures of a church, Humpty Dumpty and a combine harvester have been created as part of an annual competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year&#8217;s theme was about promoting the Cambridgeshire County Show, to be held at the Abbots Ripton Estate near Huntingdon on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sam Forsyth, chairman of the county&#8217;s young farmers&#8217; group, who organised the models, praised the creativity on display.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said entertainment at the show would include &#8220;more than 150 trade stands, the National Lamb Race, dog show, vintage vehicle displays, livestock competitions, and crowd favourites such as the live farming demonstrations&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Straw bale sculptures of a church, Humpty Dumpty and a combine harvester have been created as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609869,"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-609868","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\/609868","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=609868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}