{"id":1102,"date":"2006-05-30T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2006-05-30T18:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/05\/lets_return_the_competitive_eating_championship_where_it_belongs_the_good_ol_girth-loving_u_s_of_a.html"},"modified":"2006-05-30T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2006-05-30T18:20:35","slug":"lets_return_the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/lets_return_the.html","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Return The Competitive Eating Championship Where It Belongs: The Good &#8216;Ol Girth-Loving U. S. Of A."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A promising young American <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpapers.com\/html\/issues\/columns\/brooklynangle\/_vol29\/29_21bklynangle.html\">is poised to reclaim the competitive eating mantle in the world-famous Nathan&#8217;s hot dog-eating contest<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Joey Chestnut, a journeyman on the competitive-eating circuit, stunned the world &#8212; and maybe put a scare into five-time world hot dog\u00e2\u20ac\u201ceating champion Takeru Kobayashi &#8212; by setting a new American record just two months before the annual July 4 contest at Nathan&#8217;s in Coney Island.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the greatest thing to happen in the history of American sports,&#8221; said Richard Shea, president of the International Federation of Competitive Eating, the governing body of all stomach-centered sports.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Chestnut&#8217;s accomplishment may change the course of a nation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>As a result of nearly a decade of Japanese domination at our national pastime on our national holiday, many Americans believe that the Mustard Yellow International Belt will always be worn by a foreigner.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A promising young American is poised to reclaim the competitive eating mantle in the world-famous Nathan&#8217;s hot dog-eating contest: Joey Chestnut, a journeyman on the competitive-eating circuit, stunned the world &#8212; and maybe put a scare into five-time world hot dog\u00e2\u20ac\u201ceating champion Takeru Kobayashi &#8212; by setting a new American record just two months before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}