{"id":256394,"date":"2026-04-07T21:46:41","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256394\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T21:46:41","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T21:46:41","slug":"central-california-chef-wins-big-at-international-pizza-expo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/256394\/","title":{"rendered":"Central California chef wins big at International Pizza Expo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A restaurant on the central coast is adding to the growing list of award-winning food spots in California.<\/p>\n<p>Chef Michael Stevens of Palo Mesa Pizza took home first place in the &#8220;Classica&#8221; Division at the International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>He earned the highest overall score against top pizza makers from around the world.<\/p>\n<p>Stevens joined ARC Bakersfield to give Kern County a taste of what sets his pizza apart from the rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 A restaurant on the central coast is adding to the growing list of award-winning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256395,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-256394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}