{"id":40050,"date":"2025-07-27T01:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40050\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T01:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T01:38:07","slug":"great-white-shark-sculpture-wins-first-place-at-sandcastles-in-newport-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/40050\/","title":{"rendered":"Great white shark sculpture wins first place at sandcastles in Newport event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEWPORT, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Team Parker emerged victorious at a Newport sandcastle competition, taking first place with their intricately sculpted great white shark. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/business.newportchamber.org\/events\/Details\/sand-castle-competition-south-beach-1394675?sourceTypeId=Website\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/business.newportchamber.org\/events\/Details\/sand-castle-competition-south-beach-1394675?sourceTypeId=Website\" class=\"themeColorForLinks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The event, held at South Beach,<\/a> saw participation from 19 teams and a total of 68 participants, drawing approximately 200 attendees.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a great morning to be out at the beach and we had some spectacular sculptures,&#8221; said Patrick Newhall, a park ranger with the South Beach Management Unit of the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWPORT, Ore. (KATU) \u2014 Team Parker emerged victorious at a Newport sandcastle competition, taking first place with their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,32399,32396,229,88,32397,11342,32400,32398,13708,32395],"class_list":{"0":"post-40050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-attendees","12":"tag-beach-event","13":"tag-design","14":"tag-entertainment","15":"tag-first-place","16":"tag-great-white-shark","17":"tag-oregon-parks-and-recreation","18":"tag-participants","19":"tag-sculpture","20":"tag-team-parker"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}