{"id":96429,"date":"2017-07-05T16:32:36","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T11:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/?p=96429"},"modified":"2017-07-05T16:32:36","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T11:02:36","slug":"72-hot-dogs-buns-10-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/72-hot-dogs-buns-10-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"72 hot dogs &#038; buns in 10 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joey \u2018Jaws\u2019 Chestnut, a competitive eater, talks like any other athlete. Conditioning is key for pushing the body to its limit, the 33-year-old Californian says.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He certainly stretched that limit , downing 72 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes at the annual wiener-eating contest on New York\u2019s Coney Island, a tradition that marks every Independence Day holiday in the United States.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96430 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/500x344-1499201168687.jpg\" alt=\"72 hot dogs &amp; buns in 10 minutes\" width=\"500\" height=\"344\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chestnut won the competition for the 10th time and improved on the speed-eating tally he posted last summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the 2016 edition of the eat-fest at the Nathan\u2019s Famous beachside hot dog stand, it began way back in 1916, Chestnut wolfed down 70 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes to win the title.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">His personal record, and the world record, is 73.5 dogs and buns in 10 minutes, but that came during a qualifying round rather than an actual contest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-96431\" src=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/hi-res-1d97fa05818f87fcd2a9502688d221b4_crop_north.jpg\" alt=\"72 hot dogs &amp; buns in 10 minutes\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/hi-res-1d97fa05818f87fcd2a9502688d221b4_crop_north.jpg 800w, https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/hi-res-1d97fa05818f87fcd2a9502688d221b4_crop_north-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After Tuesday\u2019s victory, organiser George Shea praised Chestnut as if he were a warrior returning from a distant battlefield.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cHe is an American hero. He stands as a representative of freedom, of the American ideal,\u201d said Shea to the 30,000 people who turned out to watch the competition.Chestnut spoke of himself in more measured language.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI am just a goofy dude who likes to eat. I am a lucky guy, to travel around the world and eat and make people smile,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joey \u2018Jaws\u2019 Chestnut, a competitive eater, talks like any other athlete. Conditioning is key for pushing the body to its limit, the 33-year-old Californian says. He certainly stretched that limit , downing 72 hot dogs and buns in 10 minutes at the annual wiener-eating contest on New York\u2019s Coney Island, a tradition that marks every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48567,48562,48568,48566,48564,48565,48569,48563,478,4737],"class_list":["post-96429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-72-hot-dogs","tag-72-hot-dogs-buns-in-10-minutes","tag-buns","tag-californian","tag-chestnut","tag-competitive-eater","tag-coney-island","tag-joey-jaws","tag-new-york","tag-united-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/web1_117393484-78675dde0e234ae3843bba6fca21f5bd.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greattelangaana.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}