{"id":866743,"date":"2026-10-01T06:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866743\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T06:04:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:04:11","slug":"castroville-giant-artichoke-sculpture-tied-to-building-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/866743\/","title":{"rendered":"Castroville giant artichoke sculpture tied to building sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Giant Artichoke restaurant shuts down; what will happen to the giant artichoke sculpture?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksbw.com\/news-team\/c672e131-0cf6-420f-86bb-9600babd4adc\" aria-label=\"Ricardo Tovar profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/c672e131-0cf6-420f-86bb-9600babd4adc_1714417997.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Ricardo Tovar\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>CASTROVILLE, Calif. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">A giant artichoke sculpture in Castroville is tied to the sale of a building, with a co-owner explaining that the sculpture is part of the property and cannot be sold separately.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">The Giant Artichoke Restaurant closed Wednesday after 25 years under its current ownership. The building has been up for sale since April, but no one has stepped forward to buy it.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">Salazar said the iconic landmark outside the restaurant has received an offer.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">\u201cOnce I told him it was part of the building and that he\u2019d have to buy the building, he just kinda joked that he might steal it. So if you see this Giant Artichoke in somebody\u2019s backyard, just know he stole it,\u201d co-owner Juan Salazar said.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Stealing the sculpture would be difficult, Salazar added, because \u201cit\u2019s full of cement and rebar, so you can\u2019t just lift it out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">The building remains for sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Giant Artichoke restaurant shuts down; what will happen to the giant artichoke sculpture? CASTROVILLE, Calif. \u2014 A giant&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":866744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[6484,228,226,227,41489,26096,365559,304368,365561,229,88,365562,19238,14797,17711,19447,365560,7240,6601,2394],"class_list":["post-866743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-april","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-backyard","tag-building","tag-castroville-giant-artichoke-sculpture","tag-co-owner","tag-current-ownership","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-iconic-landmark","tag-ksbw","tag-part","tag-property","tag-restaurant","tag-salazar","tag-sale","tag-wednesday","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866743","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=866743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/866744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}