{"id":317319,"date":"2026-10-30T02:40:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317319\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T02:40:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T02:40:06","slug":"this-weeks-biggest-winners-losers-40","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/317319\/","title":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s biggest Winners &#038; Losers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It ain\u2019t the Great British Baking Show, but the Great American Pizza Challenge has a homegrown culture of its own. And a Pennsylvanian, Josh DeFelice \u2013 who normally operates from Rocco\u2019s Slice House in a former pharmacy inside a Shop\u2019n Save supermarket in Westmoreland County\u2019s Greensburg \u2013 is a winner, no matter how you slice it. DeFelice took home the top prize for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pennlive.com\/food\/2026\/10\/pizza-as-medicine-pa-pharmacy-counters-slices-beat-new-yorks.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Best New York Style Pizza<\/a> in the challenge, held at the Pizza Expo Columbus (Ohio), out-doughing competitors from around the country\u2026including one from Brooklyn.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Keep reading for more winners and losers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It ain\u2019t the Great British Baking Show, but the Great American Pizza Challenge has a homegrown culture of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":317320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70,4219],"class_list":["post-317319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news","tag-winners-losers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}