{"id":381826,"date":"2026-08-26T18:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381826\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T18:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T18:16:12","slug":"miami-beach-botanical-garden-competing-in-waterlily-weigh-off-2026-newsradio-wiod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381826\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Beach Botanical Garden Competing in Waterlily Weigh-Off 2026 | NewsRadio WIOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Miami Beach, FL) &#8211; Miami Beach Botanical Garden is going global competing in the 2026 International Waterlily Weigh-Off.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami Beach <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DcOHx2MxGtu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">heavyweight division entrant <\/a>measures 41-inches and comes in at 85.9 pounds.  <\/p>\n<p>The weight is determined by how many pounds of oolitic limestone it takes to sink the massive lily pad. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DcOWmpMhh6y\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">lightweight entrant <\/a>is 15 inches wide and weighs 1.357 pounds determined by displacing koi fish food packets. <\/p>\n<p>You are asked to vote today and tomorrow at the official Waterlily Weigh-Off Instagram post.  Just tag @miamibeachgarden in comments to vote. <\/p>\n<p>More than 50 entries from eight countries are expected in this year&#8217;s Waterlily Weigh-Off.  Past winners have had pads weighing in excess of 140 pounds.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Miami Beach, FL) &#8211; Miami Beach Botanical Garden is going global competing in the 2026 International Waterlily Weigh-Off.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":381827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[153232,153229,153231,123,153230,125,124],"class_list":["post-381826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-heavyweight-division-entrant","tag-international-waterlily-weigh-off","tag-koi-fish-food-packets","tag-miami","tag-miami-beach-botanical-garden","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381826","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=381826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}