{"id":504,"date":"2005-09-05T22:35:26","date_gmt":"2005-09-06T02:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/09\/05\/germans-make-shower-history-again\/"},"modified":"2005-09-05T22:35:26","modified_gmt":"2005-09-06T02:35:26","slug":"germans-make-shower-history-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/05\/germans-make-shower-history-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Germans Make Shower History Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a6907'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"justify\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/grpshower.jpg\" width=\"155\" height=\"143\" align=\"left\">Seven Germans have broken the world shower record<br \/>\n        after standing under running water for more than four days.<\/p>\n<p>      The five men and two women, aged between 17 and 25, from Hoevelhof, showered<br \/>\n      for over 101 hours to break the 100 hour record set in 2000 by a group<br \/>\n      of Berliners.<\/p>\n<p>      The rules of the record attempt allowed the group just a 10-minute break<br \/>\n      every hour and a number of the swimwear-clad participants slept standing<br \/>\n      up under the shower.<\/p>\n<p>      Ten people began the wet feat on Wednesday, with three dropping out on<br \/>\n      Saturday.<br \/>\n      A 17-year-old boy who managed to stay under the shower for the longest<br \/>\n      won &pound;1,360.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><em>Considering Germany&#8217;s checkered history with showers,it<br \/>\n        seems to be in questionable taste to go after that particular record.<br \/>\n        We doubt it was an attempt to keep it out of the hands of the French&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ananova.com\/news\/story\/sm_1526060.html\">Ananova<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven Germans have broken the world shower record after standing under running water for more than four days. The five men and two women, aged between 17 and 25, from Hoevelhof, showered for over 101 hours to break the 100 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/09\/05\/germans-make-shower-history-again\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[576],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wacky-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}