{"id":310,"date":"2009-07-03T05:03:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T12:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamburgersaremylife.wordpress.com\/?p=310"},"modified":"2009-07-03T05:03:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T12:03:50","slug":"eating-competition-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/?p=310","title":{"rendered":"Eating Competition Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s here – tomorrow – San Jose’s Joey Chestnust defends his possession of “Th\"nathanse Mustard Belt” against arch-rival Takeru Kobayashi of Japan at the annual 4th of July Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They apparently tried their best to psyce each other out at the weigh-in yesterday, which couldn’t accentuate their differences more – Chestnut coming in at 219 and Kobayashi at a mere 132.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Always fun to watch, tiny Sonya Thomas (the “Black Widow” )\u00a0 will hopefully be among the 18 other competitors.\u00a0 Chestnust last year devoured 59 3\/4 dogs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 As always, the event, which starts @ 12 noon EDT, will be televised on ESPN.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 This is a real sport, people!<\/p>\n

Dates have been announced f\"krystalor the annual 2009 World Hamburger Eating Contest (the “Krystal Square Off”), for September 27 in Chattanooga.\u00a0\u00a0 Chestnut and Kobayashi again, of course.\u00a0\u00a0 The rules committee has announced changes that promise to make this the most “exciting event ever.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They used some fancy words in the new rules announcement.\u00a0 I believe the upshot of it is that you’re not allowed to hurl at the end.\u00a0 Thank god for small favors!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it’s here – tomorrow – San Jose’s Joey Chestnust defends his possession of “The Mustard Belt” against arch-rival Takeru Kobayashi of Japan at the annual 4th of July Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They apparently tried their best to psyce each other out at the weigh-in yesterday, which couldn’t accentuate their differences more –… Continue reading Eating Competition Updates<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[2049,2398,2400,2403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.peterstromquist.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}