{"id":181569,"date":"2024-07-21T20:59:17","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T01:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=181569"},"modified":"2024-07-21T20:59:18","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T01:59:18","slug":"pickle-champ","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2024\/07\/21\/pickle-champ\/","title":{"rendered":"Pickle champ!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/St.-Joe-Pickle-champ-2024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-181570\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This plate of pickles was no match for Emilio DeLeon of Convoy. DeLeon polished off 9.5 pickles in 10 minutes and took first place in the pickle eating contest at the 28<sup>th<\/sup> annual St. Joe Pickle Festival in St. Joe, Indiana, Saturday afternoon. That wasn\u2019t the only title DeLeon won. Late that morning, he also won the festival\u2019s pickle juice drinking contest. <em>Photo submitted<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This plate of pickles was no match for Emilio DeLeon of Convoy. DeLeon polished off 9.5 pickles in 10 minutes and took first place in the pickle eating contest at the 28th annual St. Joe Pickle Festival in St. Joe, Indiana, Saturday afternoon. That wasn\u2019t the only title DeLeon won. Late that morning, he also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-03 05:40:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181569"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":181589,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181569\/revisions\/181589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}