{"id":247,"date":"2008-12-02T05:03:39","date_gmt":"2008-12-02T09:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=247"},"modified":"2008-12-02T05:03:39","modified_gmt":"2008-12-02T09:03:39","slug":"two-new-records-for-catching-grapes-and-maltesers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=247","title":{"rendered":"Two New Records For Catching Grapes and Maltesers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LbFdEBZGUB4&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/LbFdEBZGUB4&#038;color1=0xb1b1b1&#038;color2=0xcfcfcf&#038;feature=player_embedded&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Ashrita Furman set two new Guinness World Records in Edinburgh taking his number of current world records to 88. <\/p>\n<p>The 54-year-old &#8211; managed to catch 51 malteasers in one minute \u00e2\u20ac\u201c smashing the previous entry of 41 To make the record more fun, Ashrita decided to strap a Maltese dog to his back. The idea was to attempt the record by the statue of Bobby at Greyfriars. But, the lcey condition meant Ashrita&#8217;s helper was too cold throwing the maltesers, so the record was set inside a sports hall. Ashrita said, the key to breaking this record and the grape record was the power of concentration. <\/p>\n<p>A couple of years ago, Ashrita set record for the most pogo stick jumps by Bobbys Greyfriar in Edinburgh. &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashrita.com\/stories\/honoring_bobby\">Honouring Bobby Greyfriar<\/a> at Ashrita.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashrita Furman set two new Guinness World Records in Edinburgh taking his number of current world records to 88. The 54-year-old &#8211; managed to catch 51 malteasers in one minute \u00e2\u20ac\u201c smashing the previous entry of 41 To make the record more fun, Ashrita decided to strap a Maltese dog to his back. The idea &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/?p=247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Two New Records For Catching Grapes and Maltesers&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":248,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247\/revisions\/248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.srichinmoybio.co.uk\/news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}