{"id":2376,"date":"2007-06-04T10:09:25","date_gmt":"2007-06-04T18:09:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/06\/its_never_too_early_to_start_hyping_competitive_eating_matches.html"},"modified":"2007-06-04T10:09:25","modified_gmt":"2007-06-04T18:09:25","slug":"its_never_too_e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/06\/its_never_too_e.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Never Too Early To Start Hyping Competitive Eating Matches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American dog gobbler <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/seven\/06032007\/news\/regionalnews\/frankly__hes_best_regionalnews_.htm\">Joey Chestnut has devoured Takeru Kobayashi&#8217;s world record<\/a> in a tune-up for July&#8217;s Nathan&#8217;s hot dog eating contest:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>California man Joey Chestnut wolfed down 59 1\/2 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes at a Phoenix contest yesterday &#8212; shattering champion Takeru Kobayashi&#8217;s world record.<\/p>\n<p>Kobayashi&#8217;s old record of 533\/4 was set last year at the Nathan&#8217;s Famous annual Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest, held at Coney Island.<\/p>\n<p>Chestnut placed second in last year&#8217;s world championships, consuming 52 hot dogs.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last year: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/lets_return_the.html\">Let&#8217;s Return The Competitive Eating Championship Where It Belongs: The Good &#8216;Ol Girth-Loving U. S. Of A.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American dog gobbler Joey Chestnut has devoured Takeru Kobayashi&#8217;s world record in a tune-up for July&#8217;s Nathan&#8217;s hot dog eating contest: California man Joey Chestnut wolfed down 59 1\/2 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes at a Phoenix contest yesterday &#8212; shattering champion Takeru Kobayashi&#8217;s world record. Kobayashi&#8217;s old record of 533\/4 was set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just_horrible"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376","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=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}