{"id":2302,"date":"2008-07-08T09:56:12","date_gmt":"2008-07-08T14:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2008-07-08T09:56:12","modified_gmt":"2008-07-08T14:56:12","slug":"hot-dog-eating-champ-has-local-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/hot-dog-eating-champ-has-local-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot dog eating champ has local connection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the July 4 weekend, <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/news\/story?id=2925803\">a new hot-dog-eating world champion was crowned<\/a>.\u00a0 Joey Chestnut took the title from 6-year champion Takeru Kobayashi, downing 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes, a new world record.<\/p>\n<p>You may not realize that Chestnut has a Downtown Memphis connection&#8230; on March 23 of this year, he became one of the very few people to win <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eatatbigfoot.com\/sasquatch-challenge\/\">Big Foot Lodge&#8217;s Sasquatch Challenge<\/a>.\u00a0 The Sasquatch, a burger made with 4 pounds of ground beef, is free if you can finish it in under an hour.\u00a0 Many, many people have tried and failed.\u00a0 Joey Chestnut, however, finished it off in only 7 minutes and 36 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Congrats to Joey on his victories in both the Sasquatch Challenge and the hot dog eating world championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the July 4 weekend, a new hot-dog-eating world champion was crowned.\u00a0 Joey Chestnut took the title from 6-year champion Takeru Kobayashi, downing 66 hot dogs in 12 minutes, a new world record. You may not realize that Chestnut has a Downtown Memphis connection&#8230; on March 23 of this year, he became one of the &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/08\/hot-dog-eating-champ-has-local-connection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hot dog eating champ has local connection&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. The path to wp-cache-phase1.php in wp-content/advanced-cache.php must be fixed! -->