{"id":7721,"date":"2025-10-15T02:36:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/15\/mcconchie-repeats-as-boiled-peanut-eating-champion\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T02:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T02:36:56","slug":"mcconchie-repeats-as-boiled-peanut-eating-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/15\/mcconchie-repeats-as-boiled-peanut-eating-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"McConchie Repeats as Boiled Peanut Eating Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"169\"><em data-start=\"138\" data-end=\"167\">(Photo and story by Thomas Grant Jr.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"171\" data-end=\"418\"><strong data-start=\"171\" data-end=\"189\">COLUMBIA, S.C.<\/strong> &ndash; <strong data-start=\"192\" data-end=\"226\">WACH-TV anchor Brian McConchie<\/strong>, pictured with <strong data-start=\"242\" data-end=\"279\">Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon<\/strong>, successfully defended his title at the <strong data-start=\"320\" data-end=\"373\">6th Annual Celebrity Boiled Peanut Eating Contest<\/strong> held at the <strong data-start=\"386\" data-end=\"415\">South Carolina State Fair<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"171\" data-end=\"418\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gpstrianglenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/McConchie-Blowfish-_2025_630x350.jpg?w=1440\" alt=\"\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"420\" data-end=\"606\">Sponsored by the <strong data-start=\"437\" data-end=\"466\">Lexington County Blowfish<\/strong>, the contest featured local media personalities competing to eat the most servings of <strong data-start=\"553\" data-end=\"583\">Jeffcoat&rsquo;s Singin&rsquo; Peanuts<\/strong> in just two minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photo and story by Thomas Grant Jr.) COLUMBIA, S.C. &ndash; WACH-TV anchor Brian McConchie, pictured with Lexington County Sheriff Jay Koon, successfully defended his title at the 6th Annual Celebrity Boiled Peanut Eating Contest held at the South Carolina State Fair. Sponsored by the Lexington County Blowfish, the contest featured<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/15\/mcconchie-repeats-as-boiled-peanut-eating-champion\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7722,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[31],"tags":[1166,154],"class_list":["entry","author-john-griggs","post-7721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-community-news","tag-peanut-eating-contest","tag-south-carolina-state-fair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/gpstrianglenews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/McConchie-_2025_630x350.jpg?fit=630%2C350&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gpstrianglenews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}