{"id":51,"date":"2005-09-13T21:12:41","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T02:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/09\/13\/japan-speed-eater-becomes-dumpling-mei"},"modified":"2005-09-13T21:12:41","modified_gmt":"2005-09-14T02:12:41","slug":"japan-speed-eater-becomes-dumpling-meister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2005\/09\/13\/japan-speed-eater-becomes-dumpling-meister\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan speed-eater becomes dumpling meister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a527'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4149974.stm\">Speed eating<\/a><br \/>\n seems to be the coined phrase for the ability to stuff your face with<br \/>\n a huge amount of food in a short amount of time.  The Japanese have pushed<br \/>\n it past an art into a competitive sport it seems.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4149974.stm\"><br \/>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/media\/images\/40687000\/jpg\/_40687422_kobayashi_ap203b.jpg\"><br \/>\n <\/a>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <em><br \/>\n Takeru Kobayashi polished off 83 of the steamed vegetarian dumplings in eight minutes<br \/>\n <br \/>\n &#8230;<br \/>\n <br \/>\n &#8220;I feel very excited,&#8221; he told the Associated Press news agency after the race.<br \/>\n <\/em>\n <\/p>\n<p>\n I wonder if you&#8217;ll ever hear any of these competitors say, &#8220;I&#8217;m very full.&#8221;\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/4149974.stm\">The BBC Link<\/a><br \/>\n <br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livejournal.com\/~bokane\/78923.html\">Thanks to Bokane for the link<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speed eating seems to be the coined phrase for the ability to stuff your face with a huge amount of food in a short amount of time. The Japanese have pushed it past an art into a competitive sport it seems. Takeru Kobayashi polished off 83 of the steamed vegetarian dumplings in eight minutes &#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}