{"id":917,"date":"2023-10-25T15:04:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T20:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/?p=917"},"modified":"2023-10-25T17:08:37","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T22:08:37","slug":"worlds-scariest-water-sphere-wins-prize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/?p=917","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s Spookiest Water Sphere Wins Prize"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Lego competition held in Union, New Jersey on October 21st, 2023 wins notoriety for its builder and the World&#8217;s Tallest Water Sphere. The LEGO Challenge contest hosted by the Union Police Activities League (P.A.L.) had over one dozen entries.  Corey D. Samuels, a LEGO teacher featured on LEGO Masters, Union Mayor Manuel Figueiredo, and Union Committeeman James Bowser performed the judging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Amanda Abbate (UHS class of 1988) reports that her son won first prize for their execution of the &#8220;World&#8217;s Spookiest Watersphere.&#8221;  The Abate family is pictured here with their proud son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" data-id=\"924\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231021AmandaAbateWTWS-2-240x320.jpg\" alt=\"Abate family with their Lego WTWS\" class=\"wp-image-924\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231021AmandaAbateWTWS-2-240x320.jpg 240w, http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231021AmandaAbateWTWS-2-600x800.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231021AmandaAbateWTWS-2-113x150.jpg 113w, http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231021AmandaAbateWTWS-2-768x1023.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231021AmandaAbateWTWS-2.jpg 929w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"344\" height=\"320\" data-id=\"925\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231021AmandaAbateWTWS-3-2-344x320.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-925\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231021AmandaAbateWTWS-3-2-344x320.jpg 344w, http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231021AmandaAbateWTWS-3-2-859x800.jpg 859w, http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231021AmandaAbateWTWS-3-2-150x140.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231021AmandaAbateWTWS-3-2-768x715.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/20231021AmandaAbateWTWS-3-2.jpg 1329w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 344px) 100vw, 344px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Lego competition held in Union, New Jersey on October 21st, 2023 wins notoriety for its builder and the World&#8217;s Tallest Water Sphere. The LEGO Challenge contest hosted by the Union Police Activities League (P.A.L.) had over one dozen entries. Corey D. Samuels, a LEGO teacher featured on LEGO Masters, Union Mayor Manuel Figueiredo, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=917"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/917\/revisions\/928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.worldstallestwatersphere.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}