{"id":472680,"date":"2026-10-21T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/472680\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T22:16:10","slug":"americas-high-school-students-create-texas-sized-homecoming-mum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/472680\/","title":{"rendered":"Americas High School students create Texas-sized homecoming mum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A group of students at Americas High School worked after school and on weekends to create an oversized, Texas-themed mum for Homecoming week.<\/p>\n<p>The project began with an idea from their friend Amanda. <\/p>\n<p>The students spent hours building the handmade creation, but their first attempt fell apart.<\/p>\n<p>They started over and finished the project, showing what their parents described as creativity, perseverance, and school spirit.<\/p>\n<p>The students\u2019 parents shared the story, saying they hoped the group would receive recognition for their teamwork and hard work. <\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/pozole-showdown-canutillo-isd-kitchens-square-off-thursday-at-canutillo-high\/src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Pozole showdown: Canutillo ISD kitchens square off Thursday at Canutillo High<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Send us your photos to our <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/chimein\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chime In. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 A group of students at Americas High School worked after school and on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-472680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}