{"id":712817,"date":"2026-07-27T01:15:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T01:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712817\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T01:15:31","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T01:15:31","slug":"new-yorks-giant-hot-dog-sculpture-makes-spectacular-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/712817\/","title":{"rendered":"New York&#8217;s giant hot dog sculpture makes spectacular return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">New York is famous for its skyscrapers, bright lights and world-famous landmarks &#8211;  but its newest attraction is a little more&#8230;unusual.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A giant hot dog sculpture &#8211; measuring an huge 20 metres long &#8211; has returned to Times Square.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The eye-catching artwork first appeared in the city two years ago as a temporary display, and has now made a tasty comeback.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The supersized snack has been installed as part of the USA&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/articles\/c07y27kplnvo\" class=\"ssrcss-15td0ur-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">250th birthday celebrations<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York is famous for its skyscrapers, bright lights and world-famous landmarks &#8211; but its newest attraction is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712818,"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-712817","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\/712817","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=712817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}