{"id":442,"date":"2025-10-13T04:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T04:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T04:15:11","slug":"central-valley-plumber-claims-top-spot-at-national-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/442\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Valley plumber claims top spot at national competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A Central Valley man flushed his competition away on the national stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Thursday, the Plumbing National Championship was held at Palm Beach, Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Candidates from all over the country entered a digital qualifying challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">From there, the top 20 competitors moved to round two.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Then the top five from that category competed in Florida, which includes Madera&#8217;s Ian Edelbacher.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He told Action News he was shocked to win first place, &#8220;No, it was very exciting, surprised still because I was the least experienced plumber there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Ian has just four years of experience under his belt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">He took home a large trophy, including $10,000.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADERA, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A Central Valley man flushed his competition away on the national stage. On Thursday,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[804,805,806,512,112,114,113,802,798,801,803,799,800,294],"class_list":["post-442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-804","tag-000-prize","tag-806","tag-central-valley","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-ian-edelbacher","tag-madera","tag-national-competition","tag-palm-beach-florida","tag-plumber","tag-plumbing-championship","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442","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=442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}