{"id":353575,"date":"2026-07-27T12:17:38","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:17:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353575\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T12:17:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T12:17:38","slug":"tampa-man-becomes-1st-hemingway-look-alike-at-key-west-contest-to-win-sporting-authors-younger-look-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/353575\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa man becomes 1st Hemingway look-alike at Key West contest to win sporting author\u2019s younger look &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">KEY WEST, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A special contest drew a crowd of Ernest Hemingway look-alikes to Key West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than 130 look-alikes took to the stage at Sloppy Joe\u2019s Bar to compete for the 45th annual Hemingway Look-Alike Contest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The winner, Chris Dutton from Tampa, made history. He became the first \u201cyoung Hemingway\u201d to win the title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dutton won by sporting the author\u2019s dark hair and mustache, breaking from the traditional white-bearded look of past champions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The weekend of fun continued outside the bar when the Hemingway look-alikes took to the streets for Key West\u2019s annual Running of the Bulls. The event recreated the famous Pamplona tradition with life-size bulls on wheels instead of the real thing.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KEY WEST, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A special contest drew a crowd of Ernest Hemingway look-alikes to Key West.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-353575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}