{"id":329589,"date":"2026-08-25T21:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329589\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T21:32:10","slug":"the-great-new-york-state-fair-unveils-58th-annual-butter-sculpture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329589\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great New York State Fair unveils 58th annual butter sculpture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Great New York State Fair unveils 58th annual butter sculpture with America 250 theme<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mynbc5.com\/news-team\/3afa302b-5e9f-4bc3-943b-9a930326c0fb\" aria-label=\"Michael Cusanelli profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/3afa302b-5e9f-4bc3-943b-9a930326c0fb_1780510546.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Michael Cusanelli\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>SYRACUSE, N.Y. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">The Great New York State Fair has unveiled its 58th annual butter sculpture, celebrating &#8220;250 Years of American Traditions: New York Style.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The 800-pound sculpture features the Empire State Building, baseball in Cooperstown, and the country&#8217;s first state fair, held in 1841.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">This is the 24th consecutive butter sculpture created by food sculptors Jim Vector and Marie Pelton, who completed the piece in 11 days.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Great New York State Fair unveils 58th annual butter sculpture with America 250 theme SYRACUSE, N.Y. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[123941,123935,33453,123936,993,122179,60521,17713,123940,5867,12614,36451,123938,123939,9,11,10,49,48507,51,50,123937,29121,5384,6951,3442],"class_list":["post-329589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-24th-consecutive-butter-sculpture","tag-58th-annual-butter-sculpture","tag-america-250","tag-american-traditions","tag-baseball","tag-butter-sculpture","tag-cooperstown","tag-country","tag-dairy-delight","tag-design","tag-empire-state-building","tag-first-state","tag-food-sculptor-jim-vector","tag-marie-pelton","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-fair","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-style","tag-piece","tag-syracuse","tag-wptz","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}