{"id":42894,"date":"2015-02-18T22:57:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:57:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=42894"},"modified":"2015-02-18T22:57:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-18T14:57:56","slug":"japanese-city-builds-1585-snowmen-in-an-hour-breaks-guinness-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/02\/18\/japanese-city-builds-1585-snowmen-in-an-hour-breaks-guinness-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Japanese city builds 1,585 snowmen in an hour; breaks Guinness record"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_42895\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42895\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/snowmen_021615_Kyodo-News.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42895\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/snowmen_021615_Kyodo-News.jpg\" alt=\"Photo from Kyodo News\" width=\"507\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/snowmen_021615_Kyodo-News.jpg 507w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/snowmen_021615_Kyodo-News-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 507px) 100vw, 507px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-42895\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from Kyodo News<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TOKYO \u2013 The new record for most snowmen built in an hour has been set by the townspeople of a small city in Japan, which experienced nine inches (23 cm) of snowfall in a 24-hour time span.<\/p>\n<p>Turning the winter storm to their advantage, more than 600 people from Iiyama City shaped and stacked snow to build a record-breaking 1,585 snowmen in one hour.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve been preparing the event since last year,&#8221; said an Iiyama city official on Monday.<br \/>\nTheir wintry dreams did not melt away, as their efforts landed them a Guinness World Record.<\/p>\n<p>To qualify, each snowman had to measure at least three-feet (90 cm) in height, and possess facial features and ornamental arms, as stipulated by Guinness.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record was set in 2011, by a group of 306 people in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO \u2013 The new record for most snowmen built in an hour has been set by the townspeople of a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":42895,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,7265],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-weird","mauthors-angie-duarte","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42894\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}