{"id":894,"date":"2026-05-12T15:43:52","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=894"},"modified":"2026-05-12T15:43:52","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T15:43:52","slug":"underwater-hoover-wins-frances-annual-inventor-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=894","title":{"rendered":"Underwater hoover wins France&#8217;s annual inventor competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Paris hosted the annual L\u00e9pine competition, a moment for inventors to put the spotlight on their ideas, and which has been going for well over a century. An aquatic hoover took first prize this year, and if that sounds a little confusing, don&#8217;t worry, France 24&#8217;s Luke Shrago explains it all for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the weekend, Paris hosted the annual L\u00e9pine competition, a moment for inventors to put the spotlight on their ideas, and which has been going for well over a century. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/?p=894\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cnnglobalnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}